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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main emphasis was to draw in minorities. After that it was just to educate them about Harvard," Chang says...
...movie develops an original moral theme with enough subtlety so that the film does not end in the typical Hollywood way, with the main character summing up the importance of the film in an ostensibly stirring speech. It also take a renegade view towards violence. The director, Robert Benigni, makes it clear that people are about to die and spares us the gore. As a result, Benigni creates more sympathy for their pain than the desensitizing violence of Hollywood murders...
Certification is important. Thorstein Veblen wrote in The Theory of the Leisure Class that the main challenge facing wealthy people is displaying--thus demonstrating the existence of--their wealth. In Veblen's day they did it by "conspicuous leisure"--not working. But today there is no prestige in not working. The fashion is for rich people to keep working very hard. Veblen's other suggestion was "conspicuous consumption"--spending a lot. But in the 1990s many folks have become rich beyond the practical ability to show it off by spending. The richest man in America has built a house that...
...Volkswagen painted as a lady bug to promote the Oscar-winning director's other "bug"--Pixar's computer-animated film A Bug's Life. Lasseter's tale of greedy grasshoppers and anxious ants broke the Thanksgiving holiday box-office records with $45.7 million in ticket sales and slaughtered its main competitor, Babe: Pig in the City. Hollywood, skeptical before the release, took note. BUGS LEAVE BACON ACHIN', Daily Variety snorted merrily...
...speak of his life pre-AIDS. With candor and sensitivity, Sullivan is remarkably honest as he recounts how he never found true love in a relationship, quenched his loneliness with promiscuous affairs and used friendship as the one predictable source of support and spirituality. Friendship, in fact, forms a main artery of the book. After the onset of AIDS symptoms and the cavernous despair that ensued, Sullivan cites the strength of his friendships as providing his only scaffold of hope. But not even friendship was immune to the epidemic. As AIDS infiltrated the gay community with the stealth and fury...