Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rebel; one lewd strand of hair snakes down to his cheek. He's an orphan; his parents, the notorious Alphabet Bomber (Airport, Barber shop, Car wash, Drug store . . .) and spouse, were electrocuted together long before he turned teen. He's Wade Walker, and when the world that has branded him a juvenile delinquent weighs too heavily on his high school hellcat soul, his eye moistens with a single salty tear. So the kids call him Cry-Baby. Says Wade defiantly: "That's Mr. Baby...
...eaves of Buddhist temples share suburbia with the flat roofs of ranch-style homes. Asian shopping malls are stocked with everything from disposable diapers to dried sea cucumbers that sell for up to $1,000 per lb. Signs in English and Spanish compete with those in the Korean Hankul alphabet and in Chinese ideograms. When Roman letters appear, they are often tricked out in the rococo accents of Vietnamese...
Alongside freedom of worship, Muslim citizens of the Central Asian republics are becoming more assertive about culture. Many are demanding a return to the original Arabic script of their respective languages. The Cyrillic alphabet was forced on the Central Asian republics by Stalin in 1939 to cut Muslims off from their rich cultural heritage and to exacerbate relatively minor linguistic differences among the four main Turkic groups of the area. Today, privately run Arabic-language schools are flourishing in Tashkent and other major cities, while Tashkent's five Arabic-language middle schools are crammed to capacity. At the Tashkent...
...Language is the base of society. The alphabet is the base of language," one actor says. The theme of what language is and what role it plays in communication, in society, is vaguely developed in the show. At one point, one of the actors climbs a stool and spraypaints dots, not letters, onto a slideshow image of a crossword puzzle...
While upscale foodies have been proudly learning the gastronomic alphabet (A is for arugula, B for balsamic vinegar and C for imported chevre), mainstream America has been mounting a kitchen counterrevolution by mastering new cooking techniques like zapping and nuking. With microwave ovens now installed in three-quarters of the nation's kitchens, the U.S. is in the midst of a food upheaval that may leave taste buds as imperiled as the Panamanian drug trade...