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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they should be watching television, millions of computer users sit down at their keyboards; dial into CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online or the Internet; and start typing -- E-mail, bulletin-board postings, chat messages, rants, diatribes, even short stories and poems. Just when the media of McLuhan were supposed to render obsolete the medium of Shakespeare, the online world is experiencing the greatest boom in letter writing since the 18th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bards Of the Internet | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...gangsta rapper. He doesn't mean to glorify the rough world he comes from, merely to render it. "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death," he raps. The shootings two years ago showed Nas that in a violent world you have to stay alert and aware; Illmatic is his wake-up call to his listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Street Stories | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

...probably the most libidinal painter America has ever had. One sees him as the consummate anti-Duchamp, a permanent relief from over- theorized art, a man so in touch with the sources of his pictorial pleasure (the body of paint and the body of the world) that he can render you dizzy with exhilaration. This isn't dumbness but a particular form of sensory intelligence that has always been rare in American art and came, in this case, from outside it. De Kooning arrived in the U.S. as an illegal immigrant from Rotterdam in 1926. He was a gifted draftsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Seeing the Face in the Fire | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...changing the channel -- or adducing a childhood trauma. That powerful universe of sensational illusion has increasingly come to determine the moral atmosphere of America. The virtual world of trailer-park daytime television even has its academic counterpart in structuralism and deconstruction, whose practitioners sever reality from "text" and thereby render everything vulnerable to the most subjective, onanistic reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living in Virtual Reality | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...obvious attempt at explore Jake's inner psyche, the movie gets lost along the way, caught up in its own artistic gimmicry. It fails to render any of its allegedly soulful characters believable--or even likeable. Instead, Jake's profound quest in life (for a brilliant career and a beautiful wife, of course) becomes a megalomaniacal alternate reality where the world centers upon him. Gorillas give him advice, faces carved into a stone wall give him advice, and important people from his life keep popping up at random times to give him advice. This kooky, off-the-wall style...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: "Naked in New York" Clothes Bland Fare in Faux Zaniness | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

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