Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Estrich also delivered a speech entitled "Politics, Women and the '90s." She said women should unite around the issue of reproductive freedom and cannot afford to "sit back and contemplate and take stock" of their achievements...
...have been assigned in 24 countries, and an English version by William Weaver will be published in the U.S. next October. Once again the Italian press has orchestrated what it calls Ecomania with cries of delight and outrage. One newspaper praised Foucault's Pendulum as "the novel of the '90s," while the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano denounced it for "vulgarities...
...were almost over when I called it the Me decade. I don't deal in predictions, but you appeal to my vanity, so I'll talk about it anyway. I think that in the '90s we'll probably see a good bit of relearning, even though it might seem boring. It's in the attitudes of college students now. I sense they are already voluntarily putting the brakes on the sexual revolution -- not screeching to a halt, and not just because of AIDS...
...think there will be a lot of discussion in the '90s about morality. It has already begun. I pick it up in talking to college students. I expect a religious revival. We already see an awakening: the new interest in the Evangelicals, charismatic versions of established religions, and new religious forms such as est and channeling. That fifth freedom excites some and upsets others...
...defiantly individualist novelist-journalist-social commentator, whose dissection of our contemporary culture has won comparisons with Dickens and Balzac, looks ahead to the '90s. Instead of the rampant greed of the waning decade, he foresees a slowing of the sexual revolution, a reviving interest in religion and a retreat from the vanities he has been chronicling so deftly...