Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, many Chinese are looking to Buddhism, Taoism and even brand-new religions to slake a thirst that all the Cokes in the world won't abate. Explains William T. Liu, an American sociologist working in Singapore: "Chinese communism is a system of economic development, but there is no theology to explain what people should believe in. China is very fertile ground for any religion right...
...says Justus Reid Weiner, who, after three years of research, reported in Commentary that 1) Said grew up in Cairo, son of a Palestinian who emigrated to the U.S. in 1911, became an American citizen, then moved to Egypt; 2) Said was educated in Egypt, not at St. George's Anglican preparatory school in Jerusalem; and 3) "My beautiful old house" in Jerusalem, now lost forever to the Jews and before which he posed for documentary cameras and magazine profiles, was in fact never...
...cable TV, while someone else listens to an Eddie Murphy hit and another works out on a NordicTrack. One of the defenders makes a placatory gesture, offering the intruders a Cuisinart. Down the hall, a captive is being tortured by electric shock, his tormentor chatting amiably with him in American slang between jolts...
There are not, however, too many current movies like Three Kings--except, perhaps, in crude outline. On that level, it sounds like dozens of other interchangeable action-adventure scripts. In the aftermath of a war--in this case 1991's Desert Storm--three American soldiers discover a treasure map (you don't want to know where the enemy soldier hid it) that holds the secret of where the Iraqis have stashed the gold they stole from Kuwait. Our heroes set out to find it. In the course of their journey they encounter members of the Iraqi resistance who have been...
...some point during Susan Faludi's epic journey into the heart of American manhood, Mike McNulty, maker of a documentary film about Waco, Texas, told her, "If you want to see what's happening in the stream of our society, go to the edges and look at what's happening there, and then you begin to have an understanding--if you know how a stream works--of what's going on in the middle...