Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information, Coppola gives up his final chance to confront the issues his film initially intended to explore. The journey into America's Viet Nam madness-not to mention the journey into Willard's and Kurtz's souls-reaches its dead end in a quagmire of freshman English class recitations...
...horse embody that deep measure of humanity under the pressure of grace? If Tolstoy wrote the story, the answer is yes. And Tolstoy did write the tale that inspired the Russian play that has now been adapted to English with remarkable aesthetic fidelity for Manhattan's Chelsea Theater Center...
...illusion succeeded. Between 1884 and 1929, there was not one vacancy in the monumentally ostentatious building. It had inlaid marble floors, a rooftop promenade with gazebos, an English baronial dining hall and a uniformed staff of 150. But then the Dakota was no more extravagant than the age in which it was built. Although the building looked out over a vista of squatters' shacks in Central Park, society's reigning Four Hundred might spend $200,000 on a single ball...
DIED. Nicholas Monsarrat, 69, English novelist who evoked his World War II adventures in the Royal Navy in several of his books, including The Cruel Sea (1951), which sold 11 million copies; of cancer; in London...
They came- 19 people from all over France and their tour leader Françoise Simonin, 30 - because, simply, this is the U.S.: a part of their cultural consciousness, a place they felt they already knew well through movies, television and popular music. Well-traveled but speaking little English, the group had paid 10,400 francs each ($2,400) to tour all the sights the French insist on seeing: New York City, Niagara Falls, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Disney World in Orlando, and Washington...