Word: warps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite what we think, the world does not stop as we head into the time warp known as reading period. Nor is the news put on hold for our upcoming three months of freedom. In fact, in the next few months, there will be enough real-world entertainment to replace the boring diversions of TV reruns and the interminable games of our national past-time. As a helpful guide for what to expect, I present, in reverse order, the Top Ten Political Side-Shows of the Summer...
...playboy university president who promoted Fisher from the secretarial ranks, allegedly thanks to her talents between the sheets; a slimy comptroller with a repertoire of bilingual--but still awful--come-ons (as in, "You're looking recherche this evening"); and a black bookseller stuck in a '60s time warp who is the dead woman's ex-husband. Some of their secrets go stale by the time Chase finds the murderer, but readers can be forgiven for getting caught up in the snappy repartee and libidinous diversions scattered throughout the book...
...behind the scenes of this little time warp, a vast drama is unfolding. Since passage of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 4,000 of the 11,000 radio stations in the U.S. have changed hands, many of them gobbled up by small chains or media conglomerates. Result: a rapid dwindling of local programming in favor of standardized music, talk and news, often packaged in distant corporate headquarters. "People are totally offended by what's on the air," attorney Louis Hiken told an NAB panel last week, deploring coast-to-coast "easy-listening stations selling Dodge Caravans, beer and tampons...
This is okay, since I'm living in the fashion time-warp better known as college. But while I sit impervious to style in my saddle oxfords and argyle socks, I am struck by a sinking suspicion that leads me to squirm over the static nature of my wardrobe. For unlike those of us born in the Carter administration, when the high school kids of the new millennium begin to strut their stuff, they won't be doing so in L.L. Bean flannel...
...chanted slogans like "We don't want your racist war." When campus police hauled out some of the loudest, other students joined in the protest. Voices from the balcony of the 13,897-seat arena screamed, "The whole world's watching!" It was a bit of a time warp; Berkeley and the '60s fast-forwarded...