Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ostentation of the 1980s vanished; hello, '90s humility. Good intentions became fashionable once more -- even marketable. Ben & Jerry's Rainforest Crunch ice cream was a best seller...
...will be nervous until they find their identity, but there is still another reason to be worried. Consider this: We're on the home stretch to the millennium.The end of a century, let alone a millennium, tends to bring forth bursts of energy and confusion. Even in 1990, as the Hubble space telescope peers deeply (sometimes fuzzily) into the cosmos, sliding toward the 20th century's close feels a little like sailing off the edge of the world. No one knows what is beyond...
...irony -- a kind of American yin and yang -- characterized the year. The Northwest hamlet of Twin Peaks became the moody, ironic capital of the American landscape. Madonna, the queen of camp, literally and cheekily wrapped herself in the Stars and Stripes in a larky get-out-the-vote video. Even George Bush got into the irony act when he told America that since he is President, he no longer has to eat his broccoli...
...same time, the decision ruffled right-wingers who steadfastly oppose even the mildest forms of minority-preference programs and who are already unhappy with Bush for his retreat on taxes, among other things. Jeered John Scully of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation: "We've had everything on this except another 'Read my hips' statement...
...officials were less than jubilant. Under the terms of the decree, drug dealers are immune from extradition to the U.S. and not required to confess all their crimes. Depending on the Colombian courts, Ochoa could wind up serving less than 20 months in jail and possibly even go free...