Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...without it, nearly every candidate promises nearly anything to get more of it than his opponent. And though it has long paved the road to Washington, this contest of war chests seems to get more urgent, more important, every year. To those who are convinced that elected American integrity is in a steady decline, this is no coincidence...
...delayed. But Delta also may have been right in suggesting that a few thousand bumpings do not a hated airline make. When it came to overall passenger complaints, Delta had the second-best record among major carriers, with 1.82 complaints per 100,000 passengers. The loser in that category? American, with 3.70 complaints per 100,000. Looks like taking a later flight ? and getting compensated for it ? still beats showing up for your best friend?s wedding without your...
...TIME's article on my book The Holocaust in American Life [HISTORY, June 14], I am said to argue that the Holocaust is "unworthy of American tears." To the contrary, I repeatedly state in the book that tears--along with horror and awe--are perfectly appropriate ("worthy") responses to the Holocaust. My quarrel is with the notion that all these tears accomplish much. This, and not their worthiness, is the reason I ask in the book "why the eliciting of these responses from Americans is seen as so urgently important a task." PETER NOVICK Chicago...
Most R-rated films get that tag for lurid violence and language. If there's a bosom on display, it's usually either as a gag (the prosthetic dugs in There's Something About Mary) or a lure to humiliation (in next week's American Pie) or as power-play kink (in Summer of Sam). Nothing erotic--just the use of flesh as a tool of degradation. In the typical movie, sex is violence...
Movies have had way too much fun with Italian-American stereotyping, but Lee plays it dead serious, unendurably shrill--and for an endless 2 hrs. 20 min. Still, we can't pin all the blame for ethnic defamation on Lee; his screenwriters are Victor Colicchio and Michael Imperioli. To them, we cry, like a stern Italian grandma, "Vergogna!" That's how you say "Shame on you" in Italian...