Word: woodstock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PROFESSION WHOSE IDEA OF EXCITEMENT IS sharpening a bundle of No. 2 pencils, last Wednesday's meeting of the Financial Accounting Standards Board was the equivalent of Woodstock. At a rare standing-room-only gathering captured by even rarer camera crews, the FASB decided by a 6-to-1 vote to force companies to deduct from their earnings the value of stock options awarded to managers. Stock incentives, which account for as much as 90% of corporate executive income, have come under attack by critics of excessive pay. The rule change, which could reduce declared profits as much...
...Woodstock on the Mall, actor Edward James Olmos quoted Lincoln: "We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Clinton, a good student with a good memory, mouthed the words as Olmos spoke them. Clinton must have realized that, in a different sense and a different era, America faces the task of disenthralling itself, of shaking off the Hollywood stardust and facing facts...
...says Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land, "Clinton's generation has already had its chance to make its tastes the country's tastes." Has it ever. Baby boomers -- especially the older ones like Clinton who were born in the 1940s -- have been pop-cultural imperialists since before Woodstock; the rest of America, like it or not, has had to endure their collective self-absorption as they metamorphosed from hippies to yuppies to competitive parenting. What is possibly left for them to gain from a Clinton presidency, other than perhaps good government? Hard to picture Clinton's peers celebrating their...
...Keep the Dream Alive," featuring rolling piano accompaniment, outdid itself. Its lyrics--openly sentimental and recalling Guthrie's days at Woodstock--clashed uncomfortably with his otherwise witty, undercutting remarks...
Guthrie now owns the church Alice of "Alice's Restaurant" used to live in. He's promoting his son's band now and watching Woodstock--the video--with...