Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ENGLISH PATIENT For so many European wanderlusters who found an Eden in the Sahara, the desert was a woman--dazzling, enveloping, with a vastness that held all their dreams. In such a place, just before World War II, the Hungarian aristocrat Count Laszlo de Almasy finds his ideal desert woman and follows her to hell. He then lives, just barely, to tell the tale to a ministering angel (Juliette Binoche) who can give him what he needs: not absolution but understanding. The lovers are Ralph Fiennes--all coiled sexiness, threat shrouded in hauteur--and Kristin Scott Thomas...
...exile from Nazi Germany. Max Beckmann holds a bugle, which he has just blown. His eyes don't meet yours; he looks away, listening for an answering note. It's a piercing image of the artist deprived of his context, hoping to connect, uncertain that he can. European man, signaling from a collapsing world...
Througout our nation's history, Debater-Americans have been needlessly and cruelly persecuted. In 1621, at the celebration of the First Thanksgiving, Native Americans and European-Americans came together for a day of feasting and merriment, but Debater-Americans were excluded from the festivities, as one account reveals, "because they talked too much...
...added: "The European Community cannot speak with a unified voice absent the leadership of the United States.... The U.S. has to accept the fact that it is a European power...
...authorities and consider helping him escape punishment altogether after he admitted, minimally, to putting the baby into a plastic bag and hurling it into a dumpster. She may have been modeling herself after the parents of another privileged teenager who provided their son Alex Kelly with a life of European ease after he was accused of rape. Surely a lion must protect her cub, but there's a point when instinct must give way to morality...