Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...content merely to observe the analogies between two faiths, not point up the conflict between them. Writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore's manner is gently reflective, not satirical. His largest aim, and greatest success, is to re-create the lost spirit of a vanished movie era: the late 1940s and early...
...action sliced the Communists' representation from 242 to 139, marking the first time since the late 1940s that the Communists have not dominated the legislature...
Landscapers are replenishing their supply by buying mature trees from homeowners. The most sought-after palms were planted in the 1940s, when Los Angeles promoted the trees to boost its mystique. The palms have become hot property in more ways than one. Unscrupulous dealers roam neighborhoods at night, digging pygmy palms out of yards and grabbing potted ones from the fronts of landscape centers...
Ironically, the country that probably has the least interest in cutting the economic ties that Moscow imposed in the late 1940s is Rumania, which under Nicolae Ceausescu was more hostile to the Kremlin than any other East bloc country. He so ruined the national economy that for years to come it may have little to export beyond small agricultural surpluses, and serious market reforms may take just as long. Now that the insane policy of exporting everything but the barest necessities has ended, however, the country will probably avoid the kind of collapse that threatens Poland, because Rumania's farm...
Each famous subject, perhaps not coincidentally, had a personal tie to her family. Cromwell granted her Anglo-Irish forebears land in West Meath in the heart of Ireland. (The Longfords, originally Protestant, converted to Catholicism one by one in the 1940s, in individual decisions.) The family is directly descended from Charles II. "Most people in England are," she chuckles, "and I'm no exception." All, of course, from "the wrong side of the blanket." She likes the fact that her line stems from the classy Duchess of Cleveland rather than the King's more ordinary mistress, actress Nell Gwyn...