Word: primed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subject in tones varying from the dryly medical to the hotly sensational. But today many forms of gender nonconformity have actually become mainstream. In the past five years, several movies, plays, tabloid shows and famous cross-dressers like RuPaul have moved drag from the fringes of gay culture to prime time. Even Teletubbies, a show for toddlers, features Tinky Winky, a boy who carries a red patent-leather purse...
...government appoints new representatives to the Czech Republic, the eastern European country's own parliamentary-style government remains shaken after elections last month. The previous government led by the Civic Democratic Party (CDP) collapsed in June, prompting emergency elections for a new prime minister and for representatives to one of the houses of parliament...
...country's President Vaclav Havel, who is elected separately, has recently criticized the two most powerful parties, the Social Democrats and the CDP. He called their leaders' plan to share power--with one serving as prime minister and one heading the parliament-unconstitutional...
...secret playoff is on for a successor to Ryutaro Hashimoto as the next Japanese prime minister. Whoever he is -- and there is a short list of front-runners, none of whom have Hashimoto's dynamic reputation -- he'll come from the ranks of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. And that's part of Japan's conundrum. Traditionally, there has been no serious alternative to the LDP. The Japanese public has been willing to elect members of rival parties into the weak Upper House as a form of protest, as they did on Sunday, but they're still reluctant...
...gather in the back rooms and pick the politico who'll try to restore the world's second largest economy to its former self. Do the Japanese need a better way? Perhaps, and eventually they may vote themselves into a real two-party system. But for now their prime minister will be selected by the leaders of the LDP's numerous factions, using their own private power-and-favor calculus. Meanwhile, voters are displaying little willingness to endure the tough measures -- such as pulling the props from under inefficient industries -- that economists believe are required to rev up Asia...