Word: americas
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...worst cars in American history, but not necessarily in the world's history? Americans tend to see America as the world. The Yugo was a bad car in America in the 1980s, but we don't realize that there are many, many cars that never dreamed of coming to America. The Russian Ladas and the Czech Skodas of the world. Just the fact that the Yugo came here meant it was far and away better than many other cars in many other countries...
...ability to download albums and films in a matter of seconds is a harbinger of deep trouble for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which would prefer to turn the clock back, way back...
...college were encouraged to nominate men from other schools to compete for the title. The winner would then vie in the Her Campus “Mr. Campus Freshman” contest, a nationwide search for “the coolest, sexiest, and funniest freshman in America...
...food background. Even those like Jonathan Gold at LA Weekly or Tom Sietsema of the Washington Post, who came to the job with culinary experience, rarely had the kind of vast, transatlantic eating chops as Sokolov, not to mention 20 or 30 years of serious pro eating all over America. The list of writers who bring that kind of perspective can be counted on one maimed hand. There's Alan Richman at GQ, Jeffrey Steingarten at Vogue, Corby Kummer at the Atlantic and Ruth Reichl at Gourmet - that is, before Condé Nast shut down Gourmet last year...
...know, or care, what was going on in the culinary avant-garde. They were still stuck eating at Lum's. Now, thanks to all the things the ancient regime most loathes - the Food Network, Top Chef, Eater and other blogs, Tony Bourdain, Momofuku mania, Rachael Ray, celebrity-chef restaurants - America has become as turned on by food as any Ford-era gourmand. But they lack the one thing that the old guard has in spades: perspective...