Word: abroadly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...person who was unlisted and without a file was a person who was not being taken seriously. Years later, he was greatly distressed at not being on the list that the Reagan Administration turned out to have been keeping of people considered too left-wing to be sent abroad by the usia on cultural-exchange visits...
Today Hollywood so dominates the film landscape that Americans may think they can ignore work from abroad, whether of the 1990s or the 1890s. Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, a six-hour TV history of European silent film by the nonpareil team of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, could upend that notion. Faster than a speeding Twister, more sweeping than Braveheart and, in its insistence on Europe's artistic superiority, as contentious as an Oliver Stone screed, Cinema Europe will pry open the viewer's eyes and mind. It is airing five nights this week on cable's Turner Classic...
...played heroes from foreign cultures (Robin Hood, Zorro, D'Artagnan, the Thief of Bagdad), yet he was always an American abroad, showing the Old World how to win the fair maiden, cure each injustice. And he'd do it with a laugh--at the fix he was in, at the bulky chore of filmmaking, at the sheer joy of being Doug...
Laitin says he thinks this time abroad has shaped some of his distinguishing features among the Harvard student body...
...finish his last semester in either the fall or the spring, depending on the sailing season. He says he may spend the fall at Harvard, then coach college or high school sailing in the spring. Or he says he may decide to teach in Puerto Rico or somewhere else abroad...