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The Kaufman and James recordings sound more like something out of the buttoned-up Gay Nineties than the libertine Roaring ’20s or the Big Band Era.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Yet sports scientist Professor Tim Noakes, who worked with the South African team in the Nineties, went as far as to call Cronje a "psychopath".

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025

Nineties diva Christina Aguilera headlined Saturday’s Pride in the Park concert at Los Angeles State Historic Park, where she sang her 2002 chart-topper “Beautiful.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2022

Their new book, “Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now,” features a scrapbook of voices, emotions and memories from an era in which Asian American culture was forged and transformed.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022

It was a picture of a Gay Nineties couple on a bicycle built for two.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut