Word: cosmopolitanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Troubles erupted early in January in a series of protests that swept across the country with surprising ferocity. First, high school students upset over the rumored imposition of new examination fees stormed the streets of Marrakesh. Then the riots quickly spread from that cosmopolitan southern city to the far poorer Mediterranean north. Protesters included students free on New Year's vacations, young people out of work, housewives and others fearful of a new round of government austerity measures that would mean hikes in food and fuel prices. Before a precarious order was restored, the government had called...
...drama revolves around the relationship between Kit (Rebecca Howe) and Milly (Elsie Marks), two school cronies who rival each other inspite of their longstanding friendship. Kit, sophisticated and cosmopolitan, writes quality books that don't sell. Milly, banal and spitefully petty, writes trashy romances that make the bestseller's list. Milly accuses Kit of luring her husband (Jamie Wolf) and daughter Deidre (Nora Jaskowiak) from her; Deidre unwittingly sweeps Kit's boyfriend Rudd (Matthew Haynes) off his feet. None of this, however, is powerful enough to shatter the relationship between the two, which somehow manages to transcend all differences...
Pitch Dark is a novel with a broader itinerary, different shadowy characters but the same cosmopolitan, distanced voice. It belongs, of course, to Adler herself, a former student at some of the world's leading universities, including the Sorbonne, Harvard, and Yale Law School, and, at 45, an astute observer and listener based at The New Yorker. Like Speedboat, the new book is an artful arrangement of discontinuous parts. Its narrator exemplifies the fugitive detachment nurtured by young intellectuals in the 1950s. Her name is Kate Ennis, though her identity is never as clear as her prose...
While American restaurant food is now the world's most cosmopolitan, a Russian meal is almost as hard to buy in the U.S. as a Big Mac in Dnepropetrovsk. This vacuum can be filled by the home cook, with lively guidance from Darra Goldstein's delightful A la Russe (Random House; $16.95). The 15 Soviet republics have an extraordinarily diverse cuisine, embracing the cookery of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, representing regions from the Black Sea to the Arctic Circle, reflecting tsarist extravagance and peasant reality. (Goldstein will follow a recipe for sturgeon soup with champagne, a favorite...
Club members, who pay $42 per month in dues, may cat lunch at the club twice a week without additional charge. Members may also bring guests to the lunches, which by all reports, are good evidence of the club's self-styled cosmopolitan image. "Sometimes, there is less English than foreign languages," says member David M. Sultan...