Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Empire, he was content to explore the clutch of emotions unleashed by the painful first love of a young boy and girl in Edwardian England. A Room with a View is that exploration, Forster's sketch of love and anguish sparked on the Tuscan hills and resolved in the English countryside. In the new screen version by the Ismail Merchant-James Ivory team (Heat and Dust, The Bostonians), we are treated to a respectful and intimate adaptation of Forster's touching novel...
Some residents, including English professor andplaywright William Alfred, long for the days ofcorner drug stores and cheap groceries andrestaurants. The Athens St. resident recalls whenVie de France at 1100 Mass. Avenue replaced agrocery store, a Chinese laundry, and aninexpensive Japanese restaurant in one fell swoop...
Greeted with flowers at Chicago's O'Hare airport, Katerina ("Katya") Lycheva, 11, smiled and said in her careful English, "I am very glad to see you, and I think we will be friends." For the next two weeks, Katya's mission is to meet American children "and tell them as much as I can about the Soviet Union." Sponsored by the San Francisco-based Children of the Peacemakers, her visit was inspired by a similar 1983 trip to the U.S.S.R. by Maine Schoolgirl Samantha Smith, who died last summer in a plane crash and has become a hero...
...modest hit record in Europe. Stephanie reports that her latest career turn "came about completely by accident" when a friend at a recording studio casually suggested that she try a voice test. It went so well that she agreed to make a single with one side in English called Irresistible and the other in French called Ouragan (that means Hurricane, but it is actually the same song). The record, which will soon be released in the U.S., has been out for five weeks and has sold 100,000 copies in France alone. Her lark as a thrush might lead next...
...past, the Chinese have rejected the notion of "equidistance," thereby implying that they intended to have warmer relations with the U.S. The Red Flag article, however, was reprinted last week in the English-language China Daily, widely regarded as one of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping's main conduits for sending messages to Western powers. "Anyone reading that article would think that the U.S. is an equal threat to them and to world peace," said one dismayed Western diplomat. Whatever the reasons, Peking seemed to be putting the U.S. on notice that its most-favored-superpower status cannot be taken...