Word: americana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...exception is Texcal Leasing, Inc.,which was founded in October of 1979. Epstein waspresident, and the company, which operated out ofthe Americana Building on Dallas Ave. in Houston,folded...
...nothing is a greater threat to baseball as we know it than the newly proposed playoff system. The owners like it--which should already tip us off to trouble ahead. If baseball is Americana, this new system is like the former Soviet Union. It's backward, and it's likely to cause more harm than good...
...Americana Moralistica...
Peter Svenson's Battlefield fulfills its image in the preface as "one small niche of Americana, peopled with real individuals and placed in a real setting." Splitting his narrative between the 1860s and 1980s, with several historical stops along the way, Svenson creates a personal and historical reflection. He tells essentially two stories while uniting them behind one central idea. Battlefield reminds us that real history exists beneath the "polemics." It may not put Cross Keys on the popular map of American History, but it does restore a sense of that history as a continuum of past, present and future...
...Outside Waco, Texas, a cult called the Branch Davidians, apocalyptic and armed to the teeth, played out a siege drama that owed something to Jim Jones' last hours, when he and more than 900 members of his People's Temple cult died in Guyana, and to some older religious Americana, like Elmer Gantry, darkened with touches of the Road Warrior. The tragedy in Texas was self-contained, and seemed a familiar story of what happens when a group sealed away in paranoia succumbs to the influence of a sort of preacherly hypnotist...