Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writer and director, the 31-year-old Australian wanted to "contemporize" romantic comedy for the '90s. According to Rosenberg, American romantic comedies tend to be subdued with too much talking. In Hotel de Love, he "wanted to take it a little bit further" for a more contemporary audience...
...planted a bloody knife found in his pockets shortly following the murder. Price, who witnesses placed at the stabbing scene, was charged with having incited a black crowd "to get Jews." While Nelson reacted to the verdict with tears and Price with stony silence, Rosenbaum's brother Norman, an Australian native who had pushed for the case to be reopened, jubilantly proclaimed that the decision marks "a good day for justice" in America...
Martina Hingis is living up to her namesake (Navratilova, that is). When the 16-year-old Swiss miss beat Mary Pierce to win the Australian Open, she became the youngest female to earn a Grand Slam title in 110 years. Hingis also claimed the doubles crown. "Next time I have to play mixed doubles so I can win that too," she told the crowd...
...offering by language guru and Lecturer on Linguistics Bert R. Vaux, Linguistics 80 is a survey of varieties of ancient and modern English--from Australian to "Valley Girl," Creole to Yiddish English...
...behalf of her husband John, who was being held by Kerubino's forces in war-torn Sudan. Richardson says he never accepts a mission unless the family, the State Department and the country holding the hostage all invite him to mediate. Early, his Kenyan co-pilot and an Australian nurse were captured by Kerubino's men on Nov. 1, when their Red Cross plane landed at an airstrip near Gogrial. The plane was seized because it had also been carrying five wounded fighters of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, with which Kerubino's forces had been feuding for local...