Word: cosmopolitanism
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...seems as though anyone who was anybody was in Paris during the 1930s. Despite a worldwide depression and an unstable political climate, Paris thrived. Paris embodied cosmopolitan sophistication and chic innovation. A motley crew of artists, intellectuals, bohemians, musicians, socialites and hangers-on soaked up the atmosphere and added to the legend. It was into this electric world of jazz, fashion and culture that Huene, an aristocratic Russian emigré, found himself. Before long he was the chief photographer of Paris Vogue, and a symbol of the very world he captured so beautifully on film. In 1930, Huene met Horst...
...class without the price, the West Side Lounge serves up authentic cocktails, such as the Hemingway Daiquiri and Mississippi Mule, hailing from the days of prohibition and bathtub gin when you had to do everything to cover up the taste. Fortunately, West Side will serve you a real cosmopolitan with Absolute Citron for six bucks or slow your roll with a four-dollar draft. FM note: don’t throw up here...
...Race” with a capital letter. One of the most powerful poems in the collection is “At the Swamping of Categories,” which compiles the discrimination and brutality of many cultures and ages past and eerily connects them to today’s cosmopolitan world...
...uneasy blend of minority ethnic groups--Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara--in a predominantly Pashtun country, and include Shi'ite Muslims, despised by the majority Sunnis. As soon as they brought down the Soviet puppet ruler, alliance leaders turned on one another and viciously fought in bloody civil strife. The cosmopolitan capital, once known for its beautiful gardens and monuments, was reduced to rubble by factional warfare and complete lawlessness. Territorial warlords who regularly changed sides and betrayed one another are remembered for their ruthlessness and greed rather than any statesmanlike commitment to the nation's good. The Taliban rose to power...
...country still confused with its own identity. In the film, which is narrated entirely in the first-person by Lusztig, she describes her visit to Bucharest as eliciting a “phantom nostalgia,” a sense of longing for what had once been a charming cosmopolitan city, the “Paris of the East,” until it was demolished during the last Communist regime in Romania. One rather humorous comment in the film from Lusztig’s mother describes modern-day Romania as “ugly...