Word: 1900s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instant sensation. In Europe it attracted not only lifelong fans but also visionary artists. On a par with, or ahead of, directors in the U.S., they created film art. Color, sound, musical scores, special effects, the chase, the epic, the sequel--all were pioneered by Europeans in the early 1900s, long before Americans made movies in a town called Hollywood...
GIMME A BAGEL SHMEER," IS HOW generations of New Yorkers have ordered breakfast. It's Gotham for, "A gracious good morning to you. May I have a bagel with a bit of cream cheese, please?" Though the bagel arrived in America with Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s, until a few years ago, most of the country hadn't enjoyed this half-boiled, half-baked, half-crunchy, half-chewy half-roll...
According to the event program, a Memorial Hall dinner in the early 1900s included mock turtle soup, fried codfish and pork scraps, Welsh rarebit, stewed kidneys in wine sauce, canvas back ducks, lamb tongues and canned corn, with mince pie for dessert...
...philandering housewives, been-there done-that prostitutes, straying husbands, and naive waifs--are thrown into LaChiusa's libidinous landscape. The play tackles not just run-of-the-mill sex, but sex between men and between people of different classes, sex in movie theaters and on futons, sex in the 1900s and 1960s...
...nestle snapshots in stone as vivid as any photograph. There, engraved on slices of ink-black shale, are the myriad inhabitants of a vanished world, from plump Aysheaia prancing on caterpillar-like legs to crafty Ottoia, lurking in a burrow and extending its predatory proboscis. Excavated in the early 1900s from a geological formation in the Canadian Rockies known as the Burgess Shale, these relics of the earliest animals to appear on earth are now revered as priceless treasures. Yet for half a century after their discovery, the Burgess Shale fossils attracted little scientific attention as researchers concentrated on creatures...