Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called, obscurely, oi music. A better name might be Swasrock: an ugly subgenre influenced by punk and heavy metal -- but glorifying such far-right symbols as the Nazi swastika. The music, played by some 50 bands, provides a bond for Germany's neo-Nazi movement, a suspected source for much of the xenophobic violence that has claimed 17 lives in the past year. In a swift crackdown, German police raided studios, homes and offices, confiscating thousands of records and CDs. Whether anti-Nazi laws were broken remained unclear, since the operation produced no arrests...
Consequently, Adobe sells many copies of Robert Slimbach's recent "Minion" (the face in which this text is set), a neo-classical type to the mass market, but alternative type foundries such as Emigre and fontshop International survive as well. Experimental typographers, having given up on the traditional, roman letterform, base new on photographs and Dizzy Gillespie's handwriting. The 1980s and '90s have produced a dazzling number of new types...
Clinton tempered his neo-liberal rhetoric with outsider-style critiques of the Washington establishment...
...many, none of this came soon enough. Turkey complained that its warnings about threats to its citizens had not been heeded. In Israel reaction to the neo-Nazi violence was even stronger. Calls for economic and tourist boycotts were widely voiced, and a Knesset delegation canceled a trip to Germany in protest. Said Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: "We turn to ((Germany)) with a demand to implement existing laws, pass new ones and outlaw all those who threaten the right to life of any human being...
...mucus whirred into action. "Tactile ambiguity...subverted representation...deep fear...Neo-postcrypto...