Word: ens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Biondi, a headstrong three-year-old and a member of what some French sociologists call La Generation MacDo, saw a commercial for "McCopters," she dragged her mother to the McDonald's across from the Austerlitz train station. Until 1989, the spot was occupied by a vast cafe, the Arc-en-Ciel. But Marie Biondi, Shannon's mother, does not mourn the disappearance of the bistro. "We feel safe here," she says. "We avoid the neighborhood drunk, and the toilets are clean." Nearby, medical student Christophe Icard, 21, converses with a companion over chocolate ice cream. Cafes are "expensive...
...UNCLE WILLIE by Gwen Everett (Rizzoli; $13.95). One magic summer, Li'l Sis' Uncle Willie -- a painter en route to New York CityQstops off in the South. Through his eyes the child sees a new world of colors and culture. Uncle Willie was William Johnson, a real African-American artist, and this biography artfully employs his work to enlighten as it entertains...
Most educational reform efforts in the country fail to adequately address the need for diversity in the nation's schools. But Willie emphasized that diversity alone is not enough to en- sure educational improvement...
...nationalist Serbs see as the spearhead of a fundamentalist Muslim state, the nightmare of Islamic conquest drifting up out of the 14th century from the Battle of Kosovo, which locked the Serbs into 500 years of Turkish rule. Gunshots outside. No one even blinks. Part of the mise-en-scene...
Boris Yeltsin contends that he does have a final goal in view: to turn Russians into modern democrats with a free-market economy that can claim its rightful place in the world community. Some passengers are worried that there will be a colossal breakdown en route. Others are experiencing motion sickness as they try to grapple with new ideas like demokratizatsiya and privatizatsiya or attempt to figure out what makes brokery different from raketeery. (It is instructive that the Russian language has no words of its own for these borrowed concepts.) Still others shout for Yeltsin to crack the whip...