Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Flanked at all times by legions of dark-suited security agents, Abdullah delivered his address in flawless English with a hint of a British accent...
...Josephine, who was so enthralled that she bought 400 more. The West didn't fully embrace shahtooshes until the 1980s, when fur went out and designers began dying the shawls in appealing colors. Before long, Park Avenue hostesses were selling them and Donna Karan was confiding to British Vogue that a shahtoosh was her security blanket. (Both she and Brinkley have since renounced shahtooshes...
...broadway and musical comedy were all but synonymous. Of late, though, the Great White Way has become a neon-lit recycling bin for tributes (Fosse), revivals (Annie Get Your Gun, Cabaret), retread movies (Footloose) and British imports that were creatively dead on arrival (any Andrew Lloyd Webber show). Yes, Stephen Sondheim still strikes sparks, while a few up-and-comers, especially Adam Guettel (Floyd Collins), show signs of vibrant life. But it's long past time for something really fresh. Contact, the exhilarating dance play by choreographer Susan Stroman and writer John Weidman that opened last week at Manhattan...
Franklin: The Un-British/Activities Committee/That...
...battle over genetically engineered "frankenfoods" that has taken Europe by storm in recent months appears to be headed across the Atlantic. After a Cornell researcher reported in May that genetically altered corn crops were killing off the monarch butterfly, now comes an article in a top British medical journal, The Lancet, that links modified potatoes to intestinal problems in lab rats. Although the article is accompanied by an editor's note describing the findings as "preliminary" and cautions that they should not be used to make generalizations about genetically modified (GM) crops, they are being seized upon...