Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flooding has drawn tens of millions of ordinary people away from their jobs and day-to-day concerns. Soldiers, farmers and city dwellers have thrown themselves into the battle to shore up dikes, save lives and repair the damage, creating scenes reminiscent of the idealistic propaganda images of the 1950s. The floods remind the Chinese that even in an everyone-for-themselves market economy they share a common destiny; a destiny which they are able to shape by acting as a community...
...murder of protesters in 1989, didn't matter to the American people. And then he sold out 21 million free people in Taiwan by adhering to the one-China policy that does not support Taiwanese independence. Taiwan has now been set up the way South Korea was in the 1950s. ROBERT A. COOPER Phoenix, Ariz...
...means. His dancers hated him; he once fell backward off a stage while demonstrating a number because when he got to the edge, no one said anything. But he was a hell of a song-and-dance man, the guy who got the musical back to Hollywood in the 1950s after MGM's Roaring Thirties ended, the guy who told Mary Martin...
...British film about three children who discover an escaped convict in their barn and mistake him for Jesus Christ, has a welcome modesty and warmth, a far cry from the chilly Gothic pretensions of Phantom and Sunset Boulevard. The setting has been shifted from northern England to 1950s Louisiana, which allows the mostly British cast--particularly the children--to offer up some of the weirdest Southern accents ever heard on stage. Yet the clash of Bible Belt bigotry and Elvis-era rebellion provides a credible framework for the parable about an outcast's redemption, and Whistle Down the Wind...
...life I've hated them. Growing up in an American League city in the 1950s, it was impossible not to hate the Yankees, unless you were an egregious front runner. The Detroit kids I knew who liked the Yankees were the same kids who wore preknotted ties to school, had perfect parts in their hair and were really good at making dioramas. They liked General Motors too and, for all I know...