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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, we also have to admit that in the last third of the century, modernism ran out of steam intellectually even as it gathered near dictatorial cultural power. Take the art world, for example: allied with the museums, the mass media and the marketplace, it began to wield, as early as the '70s, in Hilton Kramer's words, "a pervasive and often cynical authority over the very public it affects to despise." We live now in an age of empty "Sensation" (to borrow the title of the recent Brooklyn Museum of Art show) and debate not the subtleties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arts: 100 Years Of Attitude | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...council "cabal," comprised of Seton, Rollert and Michael D. Shumsky '00, seems to wield the most influence on the council's executive board...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Politics Proves Seton-Redmond Undoing | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...because we in the the media elite were unwilling to publicize crimes committed by homosexuals because it didn't suit our agenda? The next stop in that line of reasoning was clear: That news is controlled by a bunch of gay-loving liberals only too happy to wield a double standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why One Murder Makes Page One and Another Is Lost in the News Briefs | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...with impressive salaries and a host of other benefits. It can maintain the nation's finest library system and still afford to keep its laboratories, dormitories, classrooms, and athletic and dining facilities in top condition. Taken together, these privileges--and make no mistake, they are privileges--allow Harvard to wield tremendous power...

Author: By Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, | Title: A Tale of Two Campaigns | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...discussed the wealth of power that women in religion could potentially wield...

Author: By Megan E. Garcia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Edelman Urges Women to Lead in Politics, Religion | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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