1995
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"If there is no truth, there is no injustice."--Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind (1995) by Norman Geras "The key thing with something like that is, you take the one sentence and turn it around and go on to another issue. Remember, you're answering the questions. You can talk about anything you want to."--anonymous spin doctor to Pat Robertson in Spin |
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1995 (MCMXCV) was the 995th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1990s decade.
This was the year that the internet entered public consciousness.
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Art and culture
- The World Wide Web gradually began receiving a great deal of attention in the popular culture and mass media
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Visual arts
- Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 by Tracey Emin
- Gustave Courbet's 1866 painting "The Origin of the World" is first publicly displayed.
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Film
- The City of Lost Children by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Leaving Las Vegas by Mike Figgis
- Safe by Todd Haynes
- La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz
- Wild Side by Donald Cammell
- Underground by Emir Kusturica
- Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch
- The Bridges of Madison County by Clint Eastwood
- Showgirls by Paul Verhoeven
- Crumb by Terry Zwigoff
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Documentary
- The Celluloid Closet by Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein
- Spin by Brian Springer
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Short
- The Elegant Spanking by Maria Beatty
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Music
- Nuphonic Records is founded by David Hill and Savash Remzi, with the objective of releasing contemporary jazz-music.
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Singles
- "I'm Your Brother" by Round One (Ron Trent)
- "Better Love" by Krystine
- "A Feelin'" by Jasper Street Company
- "M-4.5" by Maurizio
- "Hi Tech Jazz" by Underground Resistance
- "Flash" by Green Velvet
- I Wish (Skee-Lo song)
- The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall into My Mind) by The Bucketheads
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Albums
- Club Classics & House Foundations by various
- Universal Sounds of America, a space jazz compilation on Soul Jazz Records
- Tilt by Scott Walker
- Painted Desert by Ikue Mori, Robert Quine and Marc Ribot
- Journeys By DJ: Coldcut - 70 Minutes of Madness by Coldcut
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Literature
- Ocean of Sound by David Toop
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Births
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Deaths
- March 9 – Edward Bernays, Austrian-born American propagandist (b. 1891)
- April 15 – eden ahbez, Scottish-American songwriter and recording artist (b. 1908)
- August 9 – Jerry Garcia, American guitarist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
- August 19 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
- August 20 – Hugo Pratt, Italian comics creator (b. 1927)
- October 29 – Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
- September 1 – Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1910)
- September 17 – Tee Scott, American DJ (b. 1948)
- November 4 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
- November 23 – Louis Malle, French film director (b. 1932)
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