Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the banana quota system is a restraint of trade, but that hasn't stopped the friends of the quotas. They have been working frantically behind the scenes, offering South American countries various financial inducements to get them to switch positions. Meanwhile, Chiquita filed a formal protest against the European quotas in conjunction with the U.S. banana producers in Hawaii, even though the banana output in Hawaii doesn't amount to a hill of peels. The French threatened to scuttle the public-works plank of the GATT agreement unless Germany accepted the banana plank. The Germans refused, insisting on their...
...tougher inspections. The U.S. process is "actually quite insane," says Martin Weirup, who has overseen Sweden's successful salmonella-eradication program. "We have an entirely different process that begins with separating birds at the start of the process so the diseased ones, if there are any, are slaughtered last." European food safety begins on the farm, where sanitation is rigorously practiced. Says Willem Edel, a Dutch expert on salmonella: "You ((Americans)) don't really do anything there, so you're doomed from the start. The fact is, if you let birds come to the slaughterhouse infected, there is virtually nothing...
...self-absorption at the time, it seems fitting that Commodus' assassin was an athlete named Narcissus. Perhaps because of the trauma of their reception, the Commodus paintings are not in moma's show. In any case, Twombly was repatriated to America 20 years later by the enthusiasm that younger European artists and collectors felt for him. He acquired American imitators...
...tags all over subway cars and buildings. It wasn't bound up with the seizure and degradation of public space. It was, so to speak, more muted and pastoral: harmless scratches, small obscenities, chalk on Roman distemper. To adopt graffiti to the painted canvas was to pay homage to European art informel -- Fautrier, Wols and especially Jean Dubuffet. Their influence plays on Twombly's earliest paintings of the 1950s, with their lumpish glandular forms, the movement of the paint slowed up by mixing it with earth but then accelerated by a nervous, hairy scratching around the edges...
...nation's biggest food exporters talking the language of Manifest Destiny. "We're going to grow more grain. We're going to grow more beef. We're going to be slaughtering more hogs. We're going to grow more poultry. We're gonna get that European market!" said Dick Gady of ConAgra...