Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tone alienates all but the most worldly consumers. But nowadays "cult" is just another category in a big schlocky pop culture market. Blockbuster video has a cult movie section, and HMV has an alternative music bin; now you can buy your Suicidal Tendencies album in the same spic and span shop where your grandmother picks up the new Amy Grant CD. It's just no fun being subversive any more...
...mainstream advertising from Benetton, Absolut vodka, Geffen records and Viking Penguin press. Says editor Michael Goff: "We're called Out because coming out is the one thing all gays and lesbians have in common." The problem: it may be the only thing they have in common. Out must span the chasm of gender, traditionally even wider in gay media than straight, if it is to survive...
...dust- mite droppings and pollen and mold spores are often administered over a few years. Early on, the shots are given as little as six days apart, but as the treatment progresses, the frequency of shots is decreased until it levels off to a monthly pace. Over the same span, the doses are gradually increased until they reach a maintenance level...
...Year of the Woman," the others having for millenniums belonged to the men. From Geraldine Ferraro in the East to Dianne Feinstein in the West, with plenty more in between, female candidates are challenging the principle that it takes a real manto bounce checks and deliver monologues on C-SPAN. Some observers are already heralding the feminist revolution in which, after centuries of producing the babies that male politicians are required to kiss and attempting to humanize such characters as George Bush and Michael Dukakis, women will finally seize power for themselves. But the optimists are forgetting what might...
...there is little they an do during the next six weeks to break Perot's grip on the public's attention. But that did not stop the President from calling a rare prime-time press conference last week in a vain bid for network coverage. Only CNN and C-SPAN broadcast the event, which was designed to showcase an angry President pressing a reluctant Congress for a balanced- budget amendment -- an issue that, not coincidentally, has begun to work in Perot's favor. "In the face of a several-hundred-billion-dollar deficit," said Bush, "a piecemeal approach simply will...