Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telecasts of the treacly Amahl and the Night Visitors were a cultural high point. Goya, however, is a new low: a brazen melange of elements from Traviata and Puccini's La Rondine, served up with music that is a degenerate descendant of the once proud lyric tradition. Sung in English, Goya may be the piece that writes fine to Italian opera...
...Hawk? 3. What word has six successive consonants? 4. How many countries does Brazil border?* And lists of products that need inventing, like a device that reminds the forgetful driver in the car ahead that he is still blinking for a turn. For lagniappe, Hodgepodge offers foreign words the English language could use: magari!, Italian for "Would that it were so!"; razliubito, Russian for the feeling one has for someone he once loved but now does not. And some of history's more memorable deathbed utterances: "Either that wallpaper goes or I do" (Oscar Wilde...
...will face problems considerably different from those in France, where a state-owned monopoly set standards, handled billing and gave away thousands of free terminals to get the ball rolling. For one thing, American subscribers will initially see on their screens stories, lists and instructions written only in French (English text will be provided later). Then, too, they will have to pay $650 for a Minitel terminal or rent one for $35 a month. For those subscribers who already own personal computers, Baseline will provide the necessary software for the IBM PC (free) and the Macintosh ($50). But more than...
...great Van Gogh exhibition in 1984 tracked the artist's career from his arrival in Arles to the spring of 1889. Its successor, "Van Gogh in Saint-Remy and Auvers," which opens to the public this week, completes the trajectory. The organizer of both shows, the English art historian Ronald Pickvance, has brought together 70 paintings and 19 drawings from this last phase of Van Gogh's short life. Here we see the stuff of the most powerful legend of suffering and transcendence in modern art, and no superlatives seem apt to encompass its beauty and emotional range...
...twelve-page section of the report detailing the most serious accusations was in a separate appendix from the main text. U.N. officials told Ermacora that the separation was a "mistake." The appendix, moreover, was not translated from English into Russian or any other official U.N. language with the rest of the report. That saved about $100,000, the U.N. said...