Word: americana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...MOST VIABLE force in Peruvian politics has been, traditionally, its hugely popular left-wing political party, APRA, or the Alianze Popular Revolucionaria Americana for short. (APRA is also sometimes known as the Partido Apristo Peruano--that...
Warhol, whose images of such American cultural staples as soup cans and Marilyn Monroe forms an enormous part of late twentieth century Americana, can be looked at as the ultimate superstar. Meanwhile, Beuys, whose innovative experimentations with assorted media and methods of visual expression, is commonly viewed as a sort of artist-as-sorcerer, or shaman...
Around the Tonight offices, the sentiment is starting to get thick. "Everyone in the country has been tied together by Johnny Carson," says co-executive producer Peter Lassally, who, along with De Cordova, will depart from the show when Carson does. "A part of Americana is leaving." Says bandleader Doc Severinsen, who started out in the trumpet section of the Tonight show orchestra in 1962: "In a way, it's agonizing. The ending is going on and on. The pain is being extended -- and there is pain...
...brand names in television have been as successful in recent years as the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Its tony TV movies, usually uplifting slices of Americana (Sarah, Plain and Tall; Promise), have consistently won Emmys as well as high ratings. O PIONEERS! (CBS, Feb. 2, 9 p.m. EST), Willa Cather's 1913 novel about the Nebraska frontier, must have seemed an ideal Hallmark project. It is certainly ideal for Jessica Lange, one of those over-40 movie actresses who are increasingly turning to TV for "mature" roles. As Alexandra Bergson, the Swedish farmer's daughter who tames the "wild land...
...Burns boys are TV's hottest brother act. PBS's blockbuster The Civil War, which Ken directed and Ric helped write, was the TV event of 1990. Ric was responsible for this smaller slice of Americana, a wistful look at the glory days of America's greatest amusement park. The turn-of-the-century film clips were nostalgic yet startling, the documentary enthralling...