Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Back in the day, weaned on watching the colonists soundly whip the British, Revolutionary War babies/Harvard students wanted to teach the administration a lesson when it introduced a new regulation in 1790 calling for an annual public examination of the students. Students, who were decidedly ticked off by the situation, planned a way to get back at the people behind the exam and prevent it from happening...
Back in the day, weaned on watching the colonists soundly whip the British, Revolutionary War babies/Harvard students wanted to teach the administration a lesson when it introduced a new regulation in 1790 calling for an annual public examination of the students. Students, who were decidedly ticked off by the situation, planned a way to get back at the people behind the exam and prevent it from happening...
Life is Beautiful: This one's all aboutpolitics: Life is Beautiful will never,ever win Best Picture. Why? Because the Academy iswildly and unabashedly xenophobic. They don't evenlike to give awards to British films, and at leastthey're in English! Only once before, in 1969, wasa foreign film nominated for both Best Picture andForeign Film--Costa-Gavras' taut politicalthriller Z. The movie was great but of course tookBest Foreign Film honors rather than Best Picture.Benigni's film, too, is a very good one and willbe duly rewarded in the same manner...
...Baker, a skier (who was outside the area's boundary) and a snowboarder were killed by a thunderous 15-ft. wall of snow moving at 200 m.p.h. In Canada the body of Michel Trudeau, son of the former Canadian Prime Minister, lies at the bottom of a lake in British Columbia, carried there by an early-season slide. "The more I know about avalanches, the more scared I am," says Wendy Fisher, two-time Extreme Skiing champion and a notoriously fearless backcountry skier who has survived several near misses...
...Hadza, "it is women's foraging, not men's hunting, that differentially affects their own families' nutritional welfare." If the grandma hypothesis holds up, we may have to conclude that the male-female pair bond was not quite so central to human survival as the evolutionary psychologists assume. The British anthropologist Chris Knight--who is, incidentally, male--suggests that alliances among females may have been more important in shaping the political economy of Paleolithic peoples...