Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tempting to overanalyze the humor of The Simpsons, to start to view it not as the funniest show in a long, long time, but as a cultural product of the 1990s, as the ultimate funhouse mirror of American society, reflecting its movies, music, and television in grotesque orange-fleshed, big-headed cartoon characters...
...Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who sent in troops in July 1987 to bolster the ruling Sinhalese. Does this kind of deep-seated hatred and violence await minority Russians in Ukraine, or Ossetians in Georgia or ethnic Ukrainians in Moldavia? Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia offer a not-too-distant mirror of the mayhem that could be unleashed...
...field for investment bankers is bailing out foundering companies. "We're the cleanup crew who are picking up the pieces left over from the decade-long party of debt," says Wilbur Ross, a senior managing director at Wall Street's Rothschild Inc. "What you're seeing now is a mirror image of the 1980s." Memories of the '80s have left some skeptics doubting whether once high-flying dealmakers really have reformed. "Just when we thought it was safe, they're back again," says Perrin Long, director of research at First of Michigan Corp. "We have to be on guard against...
Many upperclass students, as well as first-years, moved into their rooms on Friday. At top-left, Ming Yo Tsai '93 of Eliot House, brings a full-length mirror into the new DeWolfe St. dorm. At top-right, Lawrence E. Tanz '92, a senior, carries his sofa into Lowell House. At bottom-left, Vincent P. Fiorino '95 signs in, while Sean C. Casey '95 finds his room key to the Yard...
Marlon Brando's emergence in the early '50s registered a drastic change in the cultural weather. The masculine ideal reflected in the Hollywood mirror had been basically suave and gentlemanly. Brando, who grew up middle class, Midwestern and Wasp, radiated pure working-class alienation -- an inarticulate promise of danger, sex and social abrasion. Which is why, as TIME film critic Richard Schickel tells us in BRANDO: A LIFE IN OUR TIMES (Atheneum; $21.95), he was a mythic presence for all the young urban professionals of the '50s. Rude but sensitive, rough but anguished, Brando was their version of pastoral...