Word: walls
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...unlikely history will forget the period, thanks to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Persian Gulf War. But in music, you'd think there was a jump from the upbeat Top 40 of Reagan's America--epitomized in Madonna's "Material Girl" (1984)--to the brooding alternative explosion of Clinton's '90s, marked by Nirvana's breakthrough hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991). In making that leap you'd skip both the George Bush years and the apex of a key musical genre: the power ballad...
...women here treated student questions likethey did not matter. In addition, they seemedstumped by the term "spring break." They gave nospecific information, only recommending takingthree pamphlets from the wall-- one of them beinga brochure for Club Med, whose prices far exceedthe average student's travel budget. AmericanExpress' agents gave no helpful advice, not evensuggesting where to start looking in the thick,overwhelming pamphlets. American Express Travelgoes at the bottom of this list of agenciesbecause students certainly seem to be at thebottom of theirs...
...economy revived, but an outsize share of the benefit seemed to flow to Wall Street. Mergers proliferated wildly, mostly, it seemed, for the enrichment of a few financial manipulators--novelist Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe. Moralists bemoaned what they saw as a sanctification of greed--not only in the U.S. but also in Margaret Thatcher's Britain, Helmut Kohl's West Germany and, of all places, Red China. But unlike in the irrationally exuberant 1920s, disaster did not strike. Though stocks fell even faster on Oct. 19, 1987, than they had in 1929, they bounced back higher than...
...finds that the benefits of being a top television performer are readily apparent: even the three Porsches in his smartly tiled garage--two vintage, one a 1997 Turbo S--have a view of all Los Angeles. This is thanks to a picture window cut into the garage's wall. Yes, it's nice to be a TV star's car, just as it's nice to be a TV star. And now that even Mikhail Gorbachev has begun doing commercials for Pizza Hut, it seems pointless to argue with the medium that so dominates our lives and culture. Most...
Daniel Kadlec is TIME's Wall Street columnist. Reach him at kadlec@time.com