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Word: europeanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today Hollywood so dominates the film landscape that Americans may think they can ignore work from abroad, whether of the 1990s or the 1890s. Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood, a six-hour TV history of European silent film by the nonpareil team of Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, could upend that notion. Faster than a speeding Twister, more sweeping than Braveheart and, in its insistence on Europe's artistic superiority, as contentious as an Oliver Stone screed, Cinema Europe will pry open the viewer's eyes and mind. It is airing five nights this week on cable's Turner Classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SILENTS ARE STILL GOLDEN | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...impishly sadistic fellow--he is seen lifting an actress' skirt while she tries to rehearse. But Hitch could make movies; Hollywood saw that. He went to the U.S., as had Lubitsch, Lang, Sjostrom, Stiller (and his young star Greta Garbo). Some were chased there by Hitler. European cinema was nearly stripped clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: SILENTS ARE STILL GOLDEN | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

...trade disputes involving the opening of Japanese markets to U.S. semiconductor manufacturers and insurance providers by the end of July. Other items to be covered at the meeting include a push by the U.S. to remove U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali by the end of the year and European nations' concern over proposed U.S. sanctions on companies doing business with Cuba. -->