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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is becoming a familiar line: "The cold war is over, and Japan won." Much of the rationale for America's global military role is gone, and the U.S. must now find a new place in a complex world economy. Robert Frost once wrote a poem called The Oven Bird: "The question that he frames in all but words/ Is what to make of a diminished thing." America, still the most powerful economy, nonetheless feels itself to be somehow the diminished thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lance Morrow | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Producing baked goods for undergraduates, however, is what creates the "hectic" atmosphere of the kitchen, says Sanchez-Ramirez. Between 9 and 10 a.m., she says, "we've got dinner items going in the oven...lunch items going out the door...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It's Time to Bake the Doughnuts | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

Clean spun his "Death Fugue" around the images of "black milk of morning" and the "ashen-haired Shumlamith" of Goethe's Faust, weaving the drinking in of the dead burned in the Nazi ovens with a force competing for the soul of Germany. Derrida talks of wanting the only phrase worth publishing, "an 'up to date' phrase" (recalling the dates of "Shibboleth"). He wants a phrase that "would tell of the all-burning, otherwise called holocaust, and the crematory oven, in German in all the Jewish languages of the world...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: Derrida's Cinders | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...them, definitely. TV's like an appliance, like a dishwasher, or a microwave oven...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Doug Coupland Speaks On the Trail of Generation X | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

...Inventions of course reformat your life. I've got a microwave oven now, and I've simply cut off the gas to my old oven because I'll never use it again...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Doug Coupland Speaks On the Trail of Generation X | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

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