Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Correspondent Priscilla Painton had been in New York City only a few months when it began to dawn on her that perhaps all roads led to Atlantic City. When Gaddafi-linked terrorists threatened to attack the U.S., what city were they rumored to have chosen? When casino owner Donald Trump...
From supermodel Suzy Parker in the 1950s to Christie Brinkley in the early 1980s, fair-skinned models used to dominate advertising. Most ad experts trace the change to Europe, where couturiers, notably Givenchy, began employing black women as runway models. The French fashion magazine Elle helped pioneer the polyethnic look...
But cooling the country's ethnic strife will take more than a few dismissals. How does Moscow satisfy the growing hunger for self-rule in the republics without aggrieving the large numbers of local Russians? In Estonia, where Russians and other minorities comprise 40% of the 1.7 million population, the...
The dream of becoming a latter-day Citizen Hearst seems emblazoned upon the American entrepreneurial psyche. Over the past half-century, dozens of metropolitan papers have shut down and few have been salvaged. None have been launched successfully since New York's Newsday in 1940. Yet would-be publishers keep...
In America they call it baseball. In Japan it's pronounced besuboru, but the form of the game in both countries is identical: umpires, nine players, walks, strikeouts, double plays and, of course, home runs (homu ran). Aside from a few quirky exceptions -- ties are permitted after twelve innings -- the...