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The nineties : a book

ISBN: 9780735217959
ISBN: 0735217955
ISBN: 9780735217973
Physical Description: print 370 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2022

Summary: "Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--

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General Note:	Jacket title.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-354) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Fighting the battle of who could care less [projections of the distortion] -- The structure of feeling (Swingin' on the flippity-flop) [I see death around the corner] -- Nineteen percent [casual determinism] -- The edge, as viewed from the middle [the slow cancellation of the future and the fast homogenization of the past] -- The movie was about a movie [the power of myth] -- CTRL + ALT + DELETE [alive in the superunknown] -- Three true outcomes [vodka on the chessboard] -- Yesterday's concepts of tomorrow [the importance of being earnest] -- Sauropods [giving the people what they want, except that they don't] -- A two-dimensional fourth dimension [the spin doctors] -- I feel the pain of everyone, then I feel nothing [just try it, and see what happens] -- The end of the decade, the end of decades.