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naughty nineties

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plural noun

  1. (in Britain) the 1890s, considered to be a period of fun-loving and laxity, esp in sexual morals

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From Washington Times

At least according to Vanity Fair editor David Friend’s new book “The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido,” a chronicle of the sex, lies and reality TV that shaped the country that would eventually vote Donald Trump into the White House.

From Washington Post

“The Naughty Nineties” is not your typical work of American cultural history: It’s funny, it’s dirty, it’s deeply reported — and millennials like it.

From New York Times

In “The Naughty Nineties,” David Friend turns instead to the 1990s, when those same baby boomers were in positions of greater power: from Bill Clinton in the White House to Howard Stern on the radio to the producers Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray on MTV with “The Real World.”

From New York Times

The Berta Walker Gallery titled a July show “Naughty Nineties,” a cheeky nod to the age of its participating artists — Varujan Boghosian, Carmen Cicero, Edward Giobbi and Gloria Nardin — all still focused on adding to their already formidable decades of work.

From New York Times