Word: florenz
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...conservative member of the European parliament said yesterday that Europe and the United States must work together in order to fend off the effects of global climate change. Karl-Heinz Florenz, a German member of the European Parliament and former chair of its Committee on the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety, said that the United States should become more involved internationally by devoting more funds to environmental causes, as well as implementing better policies. “I think there’s a lot of reasons to spend money in America, to save money, and not send...
...decade before World War I, the ante was raised once more, by Florenz Ziegfeld, whose sumptuous follies--fast-paced revues with comics, singers and chorines--became the gold standard of naughty, but not quite vulgar, spectacle: shows where young women might change clothes behind translucent screens while a winking crooner sang I'd Like to See More of You. By the '20s, the culture of Times Square hit its stride. The world of the stage spectaculars converged with the new nightclub society that Prohibition did little to discourage. The evolution of Broadway theater brought forward Eugene O'Neill, George...