Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer satisfied with apples and oranges, peas and beans, a growing number of Americans are titillating their restless palates with exotic fruits and vegetables. Mostly tropical and native to Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, this colorful harvest used to be found only in ethnic neighborhoods. Now many of these edibles are becoming standards, not only at high-fashion greengrocers but in the supermarkets of several major chains. "Foods that look strange now (as ginger, shallots, bean sprouts and even avocados did not so long ago) may soon be common in our culinary vocabulary," writes Elizabeth Schneider in her carefully...
...referendum. Such democratic participation is unparalleled in the history of Ethiopia. Once the constitution assumes its final shape, Ethiopia will never again be ruled by the personal absolutism of any one individual or a handful of individuals. There will be no more discrimination according to sex, religion or ethnic origin, no more nepotism or exploitation...
...course the movie manages to offend all our senses with enough ethnic humor to give Jesse Helms a shiver up his spine. We get to see the fat, rich sheik. The incompetent and Uncle Tom-like Black prime minister as well as the Island's yellow belly fighting force make a showing. Oh, and I don't want to forget the two Barrys from Long Island and Miami Beach...
...instance, of the view-fromthe-boardroom cityscapes of Berlin, London and New York that he turned out in some profusion for Axel Springer and other bigwigs of the postwar boom years. But to say that his talent collapsed like Chagall's is quite untrue. Chagall painted nothing but cloying ethnic kitsch for the last 30 years of his life. But in some of Kokoschka's last paintings there is the real sense of an old man's rage and an old man's freedom -- the sort of deliberate clumsiness by a highly gifted draftsman, the sense of the ludicrous posture...
...phenomenon to transform Harvard substantially, one of the most ancient institutions in the United States. But that doesn't mean schools like Harvard should be avoided, rather there should be constant pressure on them to change. Pressure that we sometimes forget to apply just as we forget our fleeting ethnic heritages...