Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...counter the setbacks, Collor strives to keep his personal popularity high with feats of derring-do. On weekends he can be spotted practicing karate (he has a black belt), riding his motorcycle or piloting an ultra-light aircraft. The son of a wealthy, political family, he makes no attempt to hide his affluence, favoring custom-tailored European suits and fancy watches...
...hills, today's rides careen through tight turns, 60 degrees plunges and dark tunnels, sometimes spinning riders upside down. There are coasters on which passengers ride standing up, others that run backward and still more featuring cars that are suspended below the tracks. At Houston's AstroWorld, the outrageous Ultra Twister hurls its riders headfirst from nine stories up, then barrel-rolls them back and forth through a winding tunnel of steel pipes...
...music, clothes and styles, leaving little room for their own imaginations. Mini-revivals in platform shoes, ripped jeans and urban-cowboy chic all coincide with J. Crew prep, Gumby haircuts and teased-out suburban perms. What young adults have managed to come up with is either nuevo hipster or ultra-nerd, but almost always a bland imitation of the past. "They don't even seem to know how to dress," says sociologist Hirsch, "and they're almost unschooled in how to look in different settings...
...Feinstein does not look like someone given to discussing hysterectomies and high-stakes political battle at the dinner table. She looks like a casting director's idea of a Bryn Mawr president who must be bodily restrained from adding gloves -- or perhaps even a pillbox hat -- to her already ultra-conservative banker-blue suits and fitted red blazers and pearls. One San Francisco columnist refers to her "vulcanized hairdo," worthy of Margaret Thatcher. Other traits, however -- her stature (5 ft. 10 in. in the half heels she favors) and a steady green- eyed gaze -- bespeak a sense of authority...
...coming to a head. Helms' pressure has already forced the NEA to make arts-grant recipients pledge that they will do nothing obscene or indecent on Government money. Sometime in June the NEA's reauthorization and funding bills go to the House floor, where a vocal ultra- conservative rump, led by California Republican Dana Rohrabacher, will attempt to abolish the agency. Since the House will probably not go along -- George Bush has declared that he would not support such a bill -- the issue will come down to a fight over the further restriction of "obscene" content in NEA-funded work...