Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should we at Harvard, safe in our homes or dorm rooms in October 1996, care about what happened 40 years ago in a faraway country, where they speak a language that's not even Indo-European? For some of us, the answer is obvious: We know people--or are ourselves people--who have a link to Hungary or Hungarians. (Did you ever wonder how to really pronounce the last name of Professor Gregory Nagy, the popular teacher of "Heroes"? My own name doesn't show it, but like Greg Nagy, I was born in Hungary. Both our families left before...
While other bands look to produce chart-topping singles, Counting Crows has a different approach. As with its last album, the band doesn't plan to release any songs from Recovering the Satellites as commercial singles in the U.S., although it will do so in the less frenzied European market. The embargo here is Duritz's way of keeping the radio play of his songs to a minimum; he feels Macarena-style overexposure of songs "ruins" bands and that the focus should be on the album as a whole. Moreover, it avoids tempting the fates or risking a backlash...
...European Car Parts and spent 15 years there, starting at $5.25 an hour and eventually making $35,000 a year. But the job was boring, and the predominantly male shop didn't seem understanding about her pregnancy and how everything was different now. When she went back to work after Sam was born, she quickly jumped at Cavataio's offer to go to RPM, as long as he would match her salary. She started three weeks later, and has barely taken a lunch break since. "I care about what's going on here," she says. "I want...
...bridges are the most evocative. Prague has its Charles Bridge, Florence its Ponte Vecchio, San Francisco its Golden Gate. Bridges signify entry in a dramatic way that tunnels and ring roads simply cannot. So, as a way of projecting ideas for London's future, the Royal Academy asked seven European architects to design a new bridge for the Thames. Specifications: it should be inhabitable, which has set the city talking...
...much Christopher Columbus," Kilpatrick concedes. "He was in charge of a lot of what happened, but even after he was replaced, the Spanish and European [explorers] continued to enslave, kill and dominate the native people...