Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that people get exceptionally nervous as they near the end of any era. There were witch-hunts in the 1690s, episodes of hysteria in the 1890s. In our own time, one has only to reach back a couple of years to recall large-scale group fears induced by mention of the ozone layer, or by pandemics like toxic-shock syndrome, the Gulf War syndrome and the Ebola virus...
...increasing disengagement of people from government, politics, community and, in some ways, from themselves; moreover, this disengagement has been actively sought. Not all that long ago, alienation from self and others was so universally thought to be the bugaboo of modern life that it was becoming boring to mention it. To be emotionally numb to experience, to live depersonalized, was to be unhappy. Not lately. With the notable exception of religious fundamentalism, the past 25 years have seen an aggressive pursuit of depersonalization, a shutting off of the emotions at once so purposeful and complete that many people, the young...
...writer's close, conflicted ties to his birthplace give his work its special flavor, not to mention its distinctive sense of the not quite familiar. Richler's raffish characters could be from New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, except that they are nuts about hockey, spice their conversation with French as well as Yiddish and have legal access to Cuban cigars...
...cable, those installation costs will magically appear on our term-bills--meaning you will end up paying for cable even if you'd rather surf the Web than surf 100 channels. You call that something all students want? I call it a marginal quality-of-life concern. (Not to mention the fact that cable TV is not apolitical. For example, should students have access to adult channels? I can see a Playboy Coalition forming...
...England captured its biggest triumph of the season--a 26-20 showstopper against Jacksonville. The Patriots did the unthinkable, upsetting the Jaguars on their home turf. But perhaps a little luck, in the form of In Your House Degeneration X, aided Pete Caroll's squad. Oh, and did we mention that Drew Bledsoe, tired of the Gen-X label he received after his plunge at the Paradise, redeemed himself against the Jags...