Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cross-dressing in the culture. A number of movies dealing explicitly with the subject have received both critical and popular acclaim. They include Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mrs. Doubtfire. An upcoming Patrick Swayze vehicle, will soon join their ranks. Inexplicably, the current video by a mainstream adultcontemporary pop singer, Gloria Estefan, is a paean to the thrills of crossdressing. Consequently, increased exposure to the practice means that the traditional, instinctive reaction to many public male-to-female cross dressers, usually one of laughter coupled with spasms of revulsion, has changed to one of, if not obliviousness, then almost...
...state and local officials, too, criticize Washington rulemakers. Enforcers of the Safe Drinking Water Act, for example, require towns like Rutland, Vermont (pop. 18,000), to test for 121 chemicals in the water. Complains Mayor Jeffrey Wennberg: "More than 80% of those chemicals would never be found in our water because there is no farming or industry here. It's ludicrous...
...current decade really will be venerated by future chroniclers of pop culture, it may well be because the '90s have produced an appealing stable of new actors who stand in smart contrast to the so-called Brat Pack of the '80s, the cliquish band of young stars that included Nelson, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and various sons of Martin Sheen. The '90s newcomers also provide a downtown alternative to married-with-children superstars like Demi Moore or Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt, Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman and a handful of others, all in their 20s and early 30s, share...
...eighties, pop duo simple Minds issued one of the classic hits of the decade, "Don't You Forget About Me." With the release of their new album, Good News From the Next World, that song now proves prophetic. Many thought that Glittering Prize, their 1992 greatest hits compilation, signaled an end to their inspiration. Yet, just when they had almost faded from recent memory, Simple Minds make a comeback with a newer, fresher sound...
...encryption, all I need to do is stick your personal public key (which you've made available to me) into the "message scrambler" and send you the encrypted message. Then, to read the message, you can stick your unshared private key into the "message descrambler" and out will pop the decoded message...