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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

As a teenager, she followed her married sister to Washington and embraced the cultural and social life of the booming Gay Nineties city.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2023

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

Henri had suddenly decided that the old-fashioned pincushion was an art form which had flowered and reached its peak in the Nineties and had since been neglected.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck