In the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ), calls for clarification of what constitutes a culture, of how an observer knows where his or her own culture ends and another begins, and other crucial topics in writing anthropology were heard.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Brooks co-wrote ( with longtime collaborator Monica Johnson ), directed and starred in a series of well-received comedies, playing variants on his standard neurotic and self-obsessed character.

In the early 1990s a small number of BBSes were also running on the Commodore Amiga models 500, 1000 and 1200 ( using external hard drives ), and the Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 ( which had built-in hard drives ).

The term BDSM was coined as a condensed acronym in the 1990s to combine communities and practices that had a significant amount of crossover – bondage and discipline ( B & D or B / D ), dominance and submission ( D & S or D / s ), and sadomasochism or sadism and masochism ( S & M or S / M ).

As recently as the late 1990s it was rather run-down ; it underwent a controversial gentrification in recent years ( in conjunction with the development of the nearby University Park at MIT ), and continues to grow more expensive.

* Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China ( 1999 ), 876pp ; well written survey from 1644 to 1990s excerpt and text search ; complete edition online at Questia

As well as being a regular panellist on Radio 4's Loose Ends ( 1987 – 88 ), and guest appearances on shows such as Radio 4's Kaleidoscope, in the early 1990s, Charles could be heard on the London Radio Station Kiss 100 ( Kiss FM ) as the Breakfast show presenter.

For example, the Union Cycliste Internationale, the governing body of international cycle sport ( which sanctions races such as the Tour de France ), decided in the late 1990s to create additional rules which prohibit racing bicycles weighing less than 6. 8 kilograms ( 14. 96 pounds ).

By the 1990s, the US had adopted the M4 carbine, a derivative of the M16 family which fired the same 5. 56mm cartridge but was lighter and shorter ( in overall length and barrel length ), resulting in marginally reduced range and power.

This evolved in the late 1990s into the treatment of other parts ( that did more than just increase the life of a product ) such as amplifier valves ( improved sound quality ), baseball bats ( greater sweet spot ), golf clubs ( greater sweet spot ), racing engines ( greater performance under stress ), firearms ( less warping after continuous shooting ), knives, razor blades, brake rotors and even pantyhose.

** Dean Cain in the 1990s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman showed Clark as a normal and shy everyman demonstrating occasional touches of clumsiness ( e. g., pretending to burn his mouth on coffee ), but still a highly skilled journalist, much like the current post-Crisis portrayal.

In the early 1990s, CBM continued selling Amigas with 7 – 14 MHz 68000-family CPUs ( even though Amiga 3000 with 25 MHz 68030 was in the market by that time ), when PCs with 33 MHz 486s, high-color graphics cards and SoundBlaster ( or compatible ) sound cards offered comparable, and eventually higher, performance, albeit at higher prices.

Since the late 1990s, custom dog tags have become fashionable amongst musicians ( particularly rappers ), and as a marketing giveaway item.

Spain, Portugal ( 1974 ), and several of the military dictatorships in South America returned to civilian rule in the late 1970s and early 1980s ( Argentina in 1983, Bolivia, Uruguay in 1984, Brazil in 1985, and Chile in the early 1990s ).

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

Much of Dennett's work since the 1990s has been concerned with fleshing out his previous ideas by addressing the same topics from an evolutionary standpoint, from what distinguishes human minds from animal minds ( Kinds of Minds ), to how free will is compatible with a naturalist view of the world ( Freedom Evolves ).

In the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, one of the new " young lions " was Christian McBride ( born 1972 ), who has performed with a range of veterans ranging from McCoy Tyner to fusion gurus Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, and who has released albums such as 2003's Vertical Vision.

Notable rockabilly revivalists and psychobilly performers from the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century include Scott Owen ( from the Australian band The Living End ), Jimbo Wallace ( from the US band Reverend Horton Heat ), Kim Nekroman ( Nekromantix ), Patricia Day ( HorrorPops ), Geoff Kresge ( Tiger Army, ex-AFI ).

The late 1980s and 1990s saw the production of a series of critically acclaimed and popular films such as Hidden Agenda, one of the rare films dealing with the political troubles in Northern Ireland, Carla's Song set partially in Nicaragua, and Land and Freedom examining the Republican resistance in the Spanish Civil War.

Spain's political system is a multi-party system, but since the 1990s, two parties have been predominant in politics, the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) and the People's Party ( PP ).

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

Since the 1990s some Spanish companies have gained multinational status, often expanding their activities in culturally close Latin America.

The president of the Spanish National Transplant Organisation has acknowledged Spain's legislative approach is likely not the primary reason for the country's success in increasing the donor rates, starting in the 1990s.

Most species are overfished since 1970s – 1990s, except for Spanish mackerel ( Scomberomorus commersoni ), carangidae and torpedo scad ( Meggalaspis spp .).

The 50 cc class was replaced by an 80cc class, then the class was dropped entirely in the 1990s, after being dominated primarily by Spanish and Italian makes.

Also born here was Mónica Naranjo, one of the best selling Spanish singers of the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ).

During the 1990s, the absence of absolute majorities in the Spanish parliament made governments reliant on support from the various nationalist parties ( Catalan, Basque, Canary Islands, etc.

The islands had a certain relevance in Spanish environmentalist circles during the 1980s and 1990s as the very last individual of Mediterranean Monk Seal in Spanish territory lived there, until it disappeared in the 1990s.

European, Australian, Latin American, Spanish and Asian versions of TNT were launched in the 1990s but were exclusively dedicated to movies, mainly from the MGM and Warner Brothers archives ( The UK and Scandinavian TNT did show WCW Monday Nitro on Friday nights just four days after its US broadcast, and the Latin American version aired a children's block called " Magic Box ").

In the late 1980s / early 1990s, Iberia also began to build up interests in other Spanish airlines – Aviaco, Viva Air, Binter Canarias and Binter Mediterraneo and Latin American airlines – Aerolíneas Argentinas, Viasa and Ladeco.

During the 1980s and early 1990s, the station was very successful by mixing American shows translated to Spanish with locally produced sitcoms such as " Cuqui ", " Cara o Cruz ", " Entrando por la Cocina ", " Carmelo y Punto " and " Barrio Cuatro Calles ".

In the late 1990s, a team of scientists led by Johan Hultin exhumed the body of an Inuit woman who had been buried in the permafrost in a gravesite near Brevig Mission in an attempt to recover RNA of the 1918 influenza virus ( Spanish flu ) that killed her.

Many of Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War were, for many decades, presumed lost, but surfaced in Mexico City in the late 1990s.

In the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries, despite the relatively high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic in 1918 – 1919, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s.

TPR Storytelling was developed by Blaine Ray, a high school Spanish teacher in California, during the 1990s.

Thanks to other successful crossover acts in the 1990s, the crossover of Spanish artists to the English market had a great surge of popularity in mainstream music and it was the next logical step to Shakira and her label for her career and Shakira worked for over a year on new material for the album.

In the final decade of the 1990s, then, arguably five generations of writers — from Cela, to Sánchez Ferlosio, to Mendoza, to Muñoz Molina, to the Generation X authors — were sharing the expanding literary space of Spanish narrative.

* Family ( Spanish band ), a 1990s pop band

While she later made fewer appearances in opera, she continued to give recitals focusing on mostly French and Spanish art songs into the 1990s.

Under the ownership of the Masons, WGPR would transition to chiefly African-American-oriented programming of urban contemporary, R & B, soul, and gospel music, with some ethnic programs in Spanish, Italian, Greek, and other languages, which would remain a part of the station's broadcast schedule into the 1990s.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).

One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, encouraged by the success of When Harry Met Sally ... in 1989.

Singin ' in the Rain is another film adopted by American gay culture which used to regularly be shown during the 1980s and early 1990s for extended runs.

In the late 1990s, Cronenberg was announced as director of a sequel to another Verhoeven film, Basic Instinct, but this also fell through.

Low production continued throughout the 1980s ( see 1980s in film ), but it increased again in the 1990s ( see 1990s in film ) with renewed private and public investment.

From the 1990s to the present day, there has been a progressive movement from traditional film opticals to an integrated digital film environment, with special effects, cutting, colour grading, and other post-production tasks all sharing the same all-digital infrastructure.

" In film as in society at large, America ’ s influence has now reached levels and depths previously unimaginable ," said critic Geoff Brown, referring to the Americanisation of British film culture in the 1990s.

Something for Everyone: British film Culture in the 1990s.

However, not until the late 1980s or early 1990s did film theory per se achieve much prominence in American universities by displacing the prevailing humanistic, auteur theory that had dominated cinema studies and which had been focused on the practical elements of film writing, production, editing and criticism.

During the 1990s the digital revolution in image technologies has had an impact on film theory in various ways.

Since the late 1990s, almost all release prints have used polyester film stock.

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

Since the early 1990s, Alexander has concentrated on film and TV, playing the character Catherine Duke on NewsRadio-a role she left after the start of season 4.

Since the mid 1990s, thousands of surface scientists and thin film technocrats have latched on to the nanotechnology bandwagon and redefined their disciplines as nanotechnology.

* The company owns the film libraries of Rysher Entertainment and Bing Crosby Productions ( which had been merged with Rysher in the 1990s ) – such titles include Walking Tall and the international rights to It Takes Two ;

Since the 1990s, panoramic photos have been available on the Advanced Photo System film.

Rolling Stone magazine changed its format in the 1990s to appeal to younger readers, often focusing on young television or film actors and pop music.

The film and the book are widely considered important touchstones of the independent film movement of the 1990s.