Word: english
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BORIS GREBENSHIKOV: RADIO SILENCE (Columbia). The title is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Grebenshikov, a dubious product of glasnost, sounds like David Bowie on Bosco as he thrashes his way -- in English -- through twelve pompous rock anthems as dense as the Iron Curtain but not quite so penetrable...
Nonetheless, Hispanics, expected to become the country's largest minority early in the next century, are being courted by a record number of publications and television news shows. Roughly 145 Spanish-language newspapers and magazines are published in the U.S. In addition, there are some 30 bilingual or English-language publications aimed at Hispanic readers. More than 200 radio stations and approximately 50 television stations broadcast some news and talk shows in Spanish. Their potential audience is vast: the - Hispanic-American community totals 23 million and is growing faster than the general population...
Large newspapers are also trying to cash in on the trend: the Miami Herald has considered circulating its daily Spanish edition nationally; the Los Angeles Times plans to make its twice-monthly Spanish insert a weekly next year. Twenty-four dailies carry Vista, an English-language Sunday insert (partly owned by Time Warner) aimed at Hispanic readers...
...George Bush had an advantage in the election because he was speaking English and everyone else was speaking Greek, no pun intended," said Pittman, a Democrat...
...Harvard English professor Warner Berthoff dedicated a book on American literary criticism to "the good old causes: liberalism and democracy." An interesting choice of words, for none have fought for liberalism more staunchly than America's universities...