Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phenomenon of our time...
Mitchell is less forthcoming about the inspiration for Not to Blame, a song about spousal abuse that seems to allude to the well-publicized domestic troubles of West Coast rocker Jackson Browne and actress Daryl Hannah. "It's not about anyone specific," she insists. "It's about the phenomenon of the battered woman at this time...
Nevertheless, Forbes -- a conservative publication, ordinarily not averse to a bit of flag waving -- brings enormous sympathy to this tale of Americans abandoning their country. It seems that "victim chic," ordinarily decried as a left-wing phenomenon, knows no bounds of reason or ideology. These people, after all, are less like traditional refugees than they are like the Americans who went to Canada during the Vietnam War. They are fleeing the draft -- of their wallets, not their bodies. It's a smaller imposition, some might think. Those who fled in the 1960s were motivated, at best, by principled opposition...
They are also the custodians of perhaps the most enduring and all-embracing pop-culture phenomenon of our time. Consider the industry that has grown out of a quirky TV series that ran for three years in the late 1960s, only to be canceled because of low ratings. Two decades later, a second series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, ran for seven seasons and became the highest-rated syndicated show in TV history. A third Trek series, Deep Space Nine, if not quite as big a hit, is currently the No. 1-rated drama in syndication. Six Star Trek movies...
...attribute this phenomenon of sales to a first edition. The numbers give credence to the economists who declare that 20-somethings have money to burn. This magazine, however, does not speak to that generation. The greatest paradox made evident by Swing magazine is its very existence...