Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beck's Loser was their song ("Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park"); Richard Linklater's Slacker, with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero...
Epps, too, said he is in many ways, powerless...
...disparities in wealth we have witnessed lead to a growing anxiety," David says. "Rather than turning that on the forces most responsible, we turn the displaced rage on the powerless--the blacks, women, gays and bisexuals...
...Mobutu is very real. The rebels control a chunk of territory 1,000 miles long. By last Saturday, Kabila's forces had not only taken the airport at Kisangani, the government's last major stronghold in the east, but had also captured the city. Mobutu's troops have been powerless to stop them. His success has instilled Kabila with such confidence that he seems to regard victory as a foregone conclusion. "This regime is completely worn out," he said with a laugh during an interview with TIME. "Mobutu can go wherever he wants...to die. He can go to Nice...
...slightly oddball but deadly serious. The power of the powerless is shaking Eastern Europe again as tens of thousands of Bulgarians fill the streets of Sofia each day to show just how fed up they are with their government of national disaster, a batch of renamed but unreconstructed communists who still balk at basic reforms. Inspired by two months of demonstrations in next-door Serbia, Bulgarian workers, students, doctors and civil servants are striking, marching and bouncing for change. Taxis sporting opposition flags block the roads, along with people clinging together in human chains. "I earn $21 a month," says...