Word: americana
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...these states are U.S. allies. And earlier this week, it was reported that the U.S. Navy has decided temporarily to avoid the Suez Canal, instead rerouting vessels around the southern tip of Africa to reach the Gulf. This was a troubling indicator of the state of the Pax Americana that has prevailed in the region since the Gulf War. After all, the whole point of deploying your navy in distant waters is the projection of power - it sends a message to your enemies that you are not to be trifled with. Rerouting them from a waterway bordered by no states...
...show has become part of Americana as it is," he said. "The only thing about the show that has changed is the color of my hair...
...treading on dangerous turf when one is a "Resident Alien" (the pleasant INS euphemism for "foreigner") and dares to critique any aspect of Americana. So let me preempt my words by saying how much I love America. If I didn't genuinely love this country and its many magnificent qualities, I wouldn't be here...
...record needed any more validation as a piece of Americana, Van Morrison appears on "The Last Laugh," with saxophones on hand to cue him in. It doesn't help the Pollyanna feel of a record that loses itself somewhere between Johnny Appleseed and Randy Newman...
...poor, unsuspecting reader. Here you are, perusing a perfectly respectable magazine, floating down a river of Americana, and you dock at a story on Keenen Ivory Wayans, whom you may remember from the early-'90s groundbreaking sketch-comedy series In Living Color, and who has now directed a film called Scary Movie, which opens this week. But before we get to Wayans, we must familiarize you with the film, and there's the rub. Scary Movie had this writer giggling like Beavis on helium, yet it's a raunchy piece of work and not easily described in printable detail...