Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anti-NEA debate was ignited in June 1989 by a photo exhibition that included homosexually explicit work by the late Robert Mapplethorpe. As is made plain by Indecent Materials, which last week transferred from Durham, N.C., to New York City's Public Theater, the flash point for Helms was gay rights. The opening play, drawn from Helms' words, quotes him assailing "homosexuals who are trying to force their way into undeserved respectability...
...that kind of talk on top of a heavy riff and it could be another slick M.C. Hammer rap, the kind of bouncy, braggadocian tune that repeatedly hooked the top single spot for U Can't Touch This. Hammer, 27, is living a dream: superstardom in a flash; private jet between gigs; movie offers; and a record label, Bust It Management Productions, to call his own. And all this by being the first performer to forge an alliance between two warring camps: the poppers and the rappers...
...ineffectual. It mainly protected domestic gunmakers from competition. Last week the ban seemed still more illusory. The | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms announced that it could not prevent imports of guns like AK-47s if they were redesigned to remove military-style features such as large-capacity magazines, flash suppressors and bayonets. Such changes may make the rifles less deadly, but buyers can turn the guns into people killers with easy-to-get kits. Manufacturers, says Josh Sugarmann, director of the Firearms Policy Project, have "left the guts of an assault weapon." Imports of modified rifles have not begun...
...will be denied on grounds other than artistic merit. Within days, four examples emerged: performance artists Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes and Tom Miller. All had been funded before and were recommended again by peers. But all emphasize sexual issues, including feminism and empathy for gays, which are flash points for the right. Finley, for example, appears nude to decry abuse of women, and has been assailed by the conservative syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak. One performance artist who survived the censors' scrutiny, Rachel Rosenthal, said that although she "needed the money badly," she would refuse...
Television and radio news floods the airwaves; major events from across the globe pop instantly onto home screens; computers and fax machines relay information in a flash. But anyone who thinks the media boom has created a nation of news junkies needs to readjust his antenna. A sobering new study titled The Age of Indifference, released last week by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press, reveals that young Americans are barely paying attention. The under-30 generation, it reports, "knows less, cares less and reads newspapers less" than any generation in the past five decades...