Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis should pledge to use tough negotiation to open Japanese and European markets to American foodstuffs. Japanese agriculture is protected so heavily that their consumers pay 27 percent of their disposable income on food, compared to 14 percent...
...over Cornwallis at Yorktown are presented in the context of political decisions and misjudgments made thousands of miles across the Atlantic. Young America produced an unusual number of intelligent and bold leaders, but, to Tuchman, the success of its war of independence rested largely on the outcome of European struggles for colonies and commerce...
...what appears on the L.A.T.C.'s stages -- from classics and European avant-garde imports to new works by Los Angeles playwrights and projects from black, Asian and Hispanic theater labs -- is so compelling that within three years of opening, it has grown to a thriving four-theater complex with 26,000 subscribers that earns half its budget from ticket sales. Playgoers readily brave the neighborhood to see the L.A.T.C.'s feisty, political and customarily left-of-center offerings...
Films from the Franco era try to demonstrate in subtle ways the hypocrisy of the time. They cover broad themes like the sham morality of the bourgeoisie and the public's general insensitivity to social problems. These themes isolate Spain from other Western European countries, Pressberg says...
...Because Spain is so different from the rest of Western Europe it has discouraged scholars from studying it. As a result a major European film history has been ignored," he says. "For historic reasons this festival gives students a chance to walk through the atmosphere that was prevalent in Spain...