Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...automatic as a Steven Spielberg special (last year he produced Back to the Future and The Goonies), a Sylvester Stallone sequel (Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rocky IV) or a comedy from Saturday Night Live alumni (this year's three Chevy Chase films, Fletch, National Lampoon's European Vacation and Spies Like Us, were among the dozen top grossers). As Screenwriter Robert Kaufman notes, "The studios know that one week of Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd walking into walls in Spies Like Us will gross as much as Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo during its entire...
...affair has revolved around two rival rescue bids for Westland, an ailing firm that is Britain's only helicopter maker. One came from a West European consortium of defense contractors, including British Aerospace; the other was made by Sikorsky, a division of the U.S. conglomerate United Technologies. Defense Minister Heseltine supported the European bid, arguing that it alone would keep helicopter technology in Britain. Thatcher maintained that she was neutral on the competing rescue plans, but Heseltine accused her of favoring the U.S. offer and resigned after an icy confrontation...
...dated Jan. 6, was sent by Sir Patrick Mayhew, Britain's Solicitor-General, to Heseltine. In it, Mayhew urged Heseltine to correct "material inaccuracies" in his version of the ongoing battle. These had been contained in an earlier letter from the then Defense Minister to a representative of the European consortium...
...particularly disappointing that European governments have taken this "business-as-usual" stance now. The current world oil glut has created a buyers' market in which plenty of oil producing nations would be eager to take away Libya's European market share. And all Western economies have cultivated diverse supply sources and improved conservation measures, making them even less dependent on imported crude. True, some European nations have strong economic ties to Libya that go beyond the realm of the petroleum industry; fully breaking these ties would cause considerable economic dislocation. But the price is worth paying to undermine Khadafy, especially...
Sometimes, award-winning European films prove unappealing to a North-American audience. It often appears as if the judges at Cannes think that complexity and unusualness demonstrate great meaning and importance. When Father was Away on Business is clearly not a film of this genre. It is that rare film that can combine great meaning with simplicity and richness, without the stench of Hollywood commercialism...