Word: tans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spelled these days with a hyphen. Watch it on TV. There's Cuban-American singing star Gloria Estefan in a music video on MTV Latino. See it at the cinema. The film version of The Joy Luck Club, based on the popular novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan, could be playing nearby. Theater? There's the modern-dance show Griot New York, directed by Jamaican-American choreographer Garth Fagan. Poetry? Buy a book of verse by St. Lucian-born, Nobel-prizewinning poet Derek Walcott, who teaches at Boston University. Painting? New York's Asia Society is holding a show...
These Asian films are already spawning would-be imitators. "When something becomes a commercial success," says novelist Tan, "it automatically opens the door, or at least the possibility, for other similar ventures. Already, in Hollywood, I'm hearing about people saying, 'We think this will be another Joy Luck Club,' about films they want to get produced...
...problems to lack of bureaucratic prowess -- a necessary skill in running the Pentagon. He is a frenetic man in motion, physically and mentally. He is not helped by some of the worst tailoring in Washington; only recently have aides persuaded him to stop wearing his baggy light tan suits to military ceremonies. "Les is always searching for a new idea," says one of his aides. Yes, says Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, but "his folksy style sometimes just doesn't square with the requirements of the office...
...anachronistic movie: how, for example, do the Musketeers have high-speed "shootouts" with their circa 1625 pistols? Why does Queen Anne (Gabrielle Anwar), in a time when paleness signified aristocratic beauty, have such a golden tan? And no 17th-century lady would have bangs, or wear black eyeliner all around her eyes as does Rebecca De Mornay...
...instead, everyone's too busy to think straight. There's no reason to tan in the morning and slave away in the libraries at night. Our fate is predestined--we get to work...