Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently argued with a Boston public high school teacher about the importance of American students, and especially citizens, possessing an awareness of international affairs. "Does it really matter to us what is going on in Kosovo or East Timor?" the teacher asked. The teacher decried the amount of American tax dollars devoted to supporting corrupt governments, sponsoring American military campaigns in other sovereign states or maintaining impotent international institutions such...
Gates, who was named one of Time Magazine's "25 Most Influential Americans" in 1997, said this is the first time an African-American has hosted a program looking back on African culture...
Dole had raised $4.7 million in the last year since resigning her post as president of the American Red Cross to run for the Republican nomination...
...emotional territory of Simpatico, the most recent work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard, is something familiar to Kellerman. His production last year of David Mamet's American Buffalo in the Loeb Ex explored the same realm of underworld deceit and betrayal, the same search for loyalty and friendship that marks this play. That is not to say Simpatico is a large scale retreading of the same dramatic ground Kellerman mapped so clearly last year. Sam Shepard is not David Mamet. He isn't able to maintain the same level of unshaking intensity that Mamet can create...
...watch this banality under any circumstances, the situation is even more painful under the treatment of largely indistinguishable. Of all the actors here, Jerry O'Connell is the one with the greatest star power. The other actors have had roles in various studio fare such as Suicide Kings and American Pie, but all in rather minor roles, and from the calibre of performances given it is easy to see why. The actors all seem to be reading off Teleprompters, and all possess very little range of emotion. Even the director acknowledges this woodenness because he places the image of each...