Word: americana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that made early audiences cough nervously. And there is the late work From a Day with Juan, 1977, whose white ramp jacked up into heaven presents a bland portentousness that is a lifetime away from O'Keeffe's revolutionary start. Through it all runs a whiff of pure Americana, a longing for an untroubled world sprung from native soil. "It is breathtaking as one rises up over the world one has been living in," O'Keeffe once wrote, "and looks down at it stretching away and away...
...This is a part of Americana," said Tasty owner Peter Hadad. "Stainless steel and glass awnings are gonna look like shit...
...concrete monstrosities which seat 60,000 people. The Green Monster isn't quite as big as it looks on TV, but the small stadium makes this feel like old-time baseball. And since the Red Sox keep threatening to build a new, bigger stadium, check out this piece of Americana while...
European states also oppose the law and threaten to retaliate in kind. While no one disputes the need to fight terrorism, this latest piece of lex Americana, a sample of Washington's father-knows-best attitude, outrages allies who do dispute U.S. methods. Just last March, Clinton approved a similar bill threatening foreign companies active in Cuba. What this is really about, argues French Foreign Ministry spokesman Yves Doutriaux, "is one nation telling the rest on earth what they can and can't do. Is that right?" The European Union, Canada and Mexico definitely do not think so, and their...
Critics have said it. Intellectual poseurs have repeated it. You have snidely asked yourself: "Where does Disney get off making a children's film out of a Victor Hugo's classic, tragic novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame? Is Disney not satisfied with mousefying Americana; must they now bastardize French culture as well...