Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks, which focused on a pair of bored, twenty-something convenience store clerks in New Jersey circa 1994 ; Linklater's Slacker similarly explored young adult characters who were more interested in philosophizing than settling with a long-term career and family ; Solondz ' Welcome to the Dollhouse touched upon themes of school bullying, school violence, teen drug use, peer pressure and broken or dysfunctional families, mostly set in a junior high school environment during the early to mid-1990s.

The early and mid-1990s saw the launch of several soap-opera dramas aimed at younger audiences that became quick hits: Beverly Hills, 90210 ; Melrose Place ; New York Undercover ; and Party of Five.

In the mid-1990s, the New Party attracted support from the KMT old guard as well as young urban professionals.

" Since the mid-1990s African artists have also been very active through the super-group Africando, where African and New York musicians mix with leading African singers such as Bambino Diabate, Ricardo Lemvo, Ismael Lo and Salif Keita.

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building a landmark in the mid-1990s.

In the mid-1990s, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) adopted the principles of the New Urbanism in its multi-billion dollar program to rebuild public housing projects nationwide.

The first reported cases of CA-MRSA began to appear in the mid-1990s in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Finland, Canada and Samoa, and were notable because they involved people who had not been exposed to a healthcare setting.

A series of huge nude portraits from the mid-1990s depicted the very large Sue Tilley, or " Big Sue ", some using her job title of " Benefits Supervisor " in the title of the painting, as in his 1995 portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, which in May 2008 was sold by Christie's in New York for $ 33. 6 million, setting a world record auction price for a living artist.

His 29-year-old bride was Elizabeth O ' Rourke, whom Stamp first met in the mid-1990s at a pharmacy in Bondi, New South Wales.

The Puttermans starred in a series of advertisements created by New York-based advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather for Duracell in the mid-1990s.

Broken Windows policing was put to its first major large-scale test in the mid-1990s after the election of Rudolph Giuliani as mayor of New York City.

Other states followed New York's lead so that by the mid-1990s most of the large states had authorized local exchange competition.

New development beginning during the mid-1990s has spun off an upscale hospitality boom throughout the whole Niagara Peninsula.

Since the mid-1990s many of the original stable of artists have split up or moved to other labels, including Xpressway Records ( Port Chalmers, New Zealand ), Arch Hill Recordings ( Auckland ), Powertool Records ( Auckland ), South Indies, Paris or Matador Records ( United States ).

During the mid-1990s Danner began reporting on the wars in the Balkans, writing a series of eleven extended articles for The New York Review of Books, which began with Danner's cover piece, " The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe " ( November 20, 1997 ) and concluded with " Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory ", ( July 15, 1999 ).

In 2007, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment collaborated on Fracture, their first joint venture since the mid-1990s before both companies were bought by Turner.

It no longer has a theoretical journal, having ended publication of the New Communist Review in the mid-1990s following the death of its editor George Woolley.

* THE distributed home video releases from New Line Home Entertainment, as well as PBS programs in the mid-1990s.

Starting in the mid-1990s, the Strip became a popular New Year's Eve celebration destination.

Polaris was a one-off musical project in the mid-1990s involving members of the New Haven indie rock band Miracle Legion.

In it he chronicled the rapid rise of Stephen Glass ' journalistic career at The New Republic during the mid-1990s and his steep fall when his widespread journalistic fraud was exposed.

The worldwide appeal of these subcultures then transmitted New World Order conspiracism like a " mind virus " to a large new audience of seekers of stigmatized knowledge from the mid-1990s on.

The Chinese New Left's origins lie mainly in scholarly people who were heavily influenced by the idea of postmodernism in universities in the Western world before coming back to China in the mid-1990s.

The liberal critics and Chinese New Leftists have fiercely debated throughout the mid-1990s and early 2000s.

With two of his singles Spraakwater and Kaal of Kammen being major hits in the mid-1990s, Extince was the first Dutch rapper making the MegaCharts.

By the mid-1990s, however, companies were beginning to ask what the return was on the investment they had made in this loosely controlled PC software buying spree.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

A Canadian Medical Association Journal paper states that " The famine in Cuba during the Special Period was caused by political and economic factors similar to the ones that caused a famine in North Korea in the mid-1990s.

Mythos was a collectible card game ( CCG ) based on the Cthulhu Mythos that Chaosium produced and marketed during the mid-1990s.

Russell T Davies was briefly a storyliner on the programme in the mid-1990s, also writing the script for the direct-to-video special " Viva Las Vegas!

Following a long legal battle, it was not until the mid-1990s that Chelsea's future at the stadium was secured and renovation work resumed.

Among the first desktop LCD computer monitors was the Eizo L66 in the mid-1990s, the Apple Studio Display in 1998, and the Apple Cinema Display in 1999.

With one third of the game ( 9 levels ) distributed as shareware, Doom was played by an estimated 10 million people within two years of its release, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture ; as a sign of its effect on the industry, games from the mid-1990s boom of first-person shooters are often known simply as " Doom clones ".

The series started to lose mainstream appeal as the technology of the Doom game engine was surpassed in the mid-1990s, although fans have continued making WADs, speedruns, and modifications to the original.

However, the timing of the availability of DECT, in the mid-1990s, was too early to find wide application for wireless data outside niche industrial applications.

The seminal moment for the growth of fantasy sports was the rise of the Internet in the mid-1990s.

While several fantasy businesses had migrated to the internet in the mid-1990s, the watershed era for online fantasy sports was in 1997 when two web sites made their debut that forever changed the fantasy sports industry: Commissioner. com and RotoNews. com.

It was showcased alongside House music in various Toronto nightclubs, but by the mid-1990s was replaced almost entirely by House music.

The Moriarty Tribunal has sat since 1997 and has investigated the granting of a mobile phone license to Esat Telecom by Michael Lowry when he was Fine Gael Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications in the Rainbow Coalition of the mid-1990s.

The divorce became final in December 17, 2001. Throughout the mid-1990s, many tabloids reported that he was having an affair with longtime friend and collaborator Trisha Yearwood.

After the popularity of game shows hit a nadir in the mid-1990s ( at which point The Price Is Right was the only game show still on daytime network TV ), the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

By the mid-1990s, McLane ( like McMullen before him ) wanted his team out of the Astrodome and was asking the city to build the Astros a new stadium.

In the mid-1990s this was revived to some extent with the emergence of the Britpop era.

From the beginning of " The Troubles " in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s until the mid-1990s, London was subjected to repeated terrorist attacks by the Provisional IRA.

The IBM 3270 display terminal subsystem was designed and developed by IBM's Kingston, NY, laboratory ( which later closed during IBM's difficult time in the mid-1990s ).

By the mid-1990s, an estimated 60 % of the republic's pastureland was in various stages of desertification.