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Word: europeanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obsession isn't the only problem with Talk. For starters, Talk needs a redesign. The black cover is awful. It looks sinister and sleazy, which may attract a certain audience, but not the intellectual yet celebrity-obsessed audience Talk wants. The inside design is just as bad. Maybe their "European visual sensibility," as Brown calls it in the first issue, just doesn't translate across the pond. It looks like a poor man's Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone is innovative in its design with its varying type faces and sometimes crowded text; Talk is just an imitator with its jumbled...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: So Far, It's Just Talk | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...Disney?s success reflects both a cultural shift toward things American ?- the country?s cinema-goers now watch five U.S. movies for every French production they see ?- and a U.S. corporation's molding its products to European tastes. "Disney had to let go pretty quickly of its strict codes, replacing many of its American-trained senior staff with European officials who had a better sense of what would work here," says Crumley. "So there are a lot more sit-down restaurants compared with the initial emphasis on fast food, and those restaurants serve wine. Prices on souvenirs and accommodations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ooh-la-la! French Love Euro Disney After All | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

...seas were angry, and European communism was in the throes of collapse. It was December 1989, and George Bush had arrived for a summit with Mikhail Gorbachev on the stormy waters off Malta in the Mediterranean. He introduced the Soviet President to his advisers, stopping near a reed-thin, 35-year-old African-American woman. "This is Condoleezza Rice," Bush told Gorbachev. "She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union." Gorbachev looked her over--startled, in that setting, by the adviser's race, gender and youth. "I hope you know a lot," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Condi Rice Can't Lose | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...cynical answer is race. The Kosovars had the foresight to be born white and European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Humanitarianism | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Even so, Hitler could not have triumphed, says Ambrose. With Britain and the U.S. in disarray, the Soviets might have overrun Germany, Italy and France. The European continent would have fallen to the communists, and the Red Army would have been poised at the English Channel. By this time, the Allies' only recourse would have been the atom bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roads Not Taken | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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