Word: inch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clean your room. This applies as a general rule before going out, as you never know who will come home with you, or in what capacity. The five-CD changer should be loaded with appropriate mood music: a select sampling of jazz is apt, while Nine Inch Nails...
This is the emerging trend of the mid-90s. If the 80s were the decade of wealth, yuppies and conspicuous consumption, the 90s are becoming the decade of disturbance. In the 80s, Madonna topped the charts with "Material Girl." Today, Nine Inch Nails has become the hottest ticket in America with songs like "Closer," heavily dependent on feedback, dissonance and violent lyrics ("I want to fuck you like an animal/I want to feel you from the inside out/I want to fuck you like an animal/You get me closer to God"). Dark, chaotic music videos that alternate with scenes of glorified...
...tape as art (Cockroaches, 1993-94) is creepily potent. Her monitors are set up on the lowest level of the ICA, in a corner draped in black, appropriately damp and smelling faintly of sewage. Cockroaches accomplishes a disturbing transference of emotion. Already slightly queasy at the sight of six inch cockroaches, the viewer is easily horrified by the appearance of Germans in gas masks speaking calmly and matter-of-factly about efficient modes of extermination. Bedarski's parallel is clever, subversive and electric...
...terrorists [Jan. 9] took courage, insight and determination by French authorities. The Armed Islamic Group is barbaric and savage; its way of achieving goals is to murder innocent and helpless people. The only way of dealing with such savagery is with an iron fist. We should not surrender an inch of ground. Khalid Al-Moosa London The Algerian imbroglio is like a jigsaw puzzle, difficult to solve. Between the government in Algeria and the militant Islamic Salvation Front there may be no lesser evil. But the most important issue is, Should we watch unconcerned the emergence of what could...
...adopted a more tolerant political philosophy (along with the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) and begun to believe he was marked for death -- correctly so. One conspirator distracted his bodyguards' attention; another pulled a shotgun trigger, creating, in the words of writer Marshall Frady, "a perfectly circular seven-inch pattern of holes over his heart." For insurance, the killers shot him again with the shotgun and pistols...