Word: franca
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...attracted so many devoted followers, and no other body of dances has inspired so thoroughgoing and committed an attempt at long-term preservation,? says critic Terry Teachout, who is writing a short biography of Balanchine. ?It?s a sign that the Balanchine style may be evolving into a lingua franca for ballet in the 21st century - a common language of dance spoken by everybody, everywhere...
...lingua franca of each of the three major sub-regions of Africa will be taught regularly each year...
...part of the sleepy village's picturesque landscape as centuries-old houses and farms. To date €258,000 - mostly from admission fees and the sale of souvenirs - has been donated to various children's charities. "We have been given an exceptional opportunity to help needy children," says Franca Price, the museum's director. "We felt this was totally in line with what Audrey would have wanted." But clouds have been hanging over Tolochenaz. Hepburn's sons had asked that their mother's belongings be returned to them after five years. Without them, the exhibit will close...
...They were following a well-worn path. For centuries, the Buddhist, rice-farming Dai have been tempted by the wide open spaces of Thailand's north, and have ventured across the Mekong to start anew. Sawitree grew up speaking Dai Lue, the main Dai language, which remains the lingua franca of many northern Thais...
...with the world outside. Insofar as multiculturalism is the theme of the new millennium, urban Indians-growing up with several languages and used to juggling cultures and traditions-have an edge over people from, say, a unicultural, often homogeneous Japan. Insofar as English is the global village's lingua franca, voluble, language-loving Indians brought up on Tennyson and Tagore are holding the festivals seldom heard of in Japan. And insofar as the most dominant new force in the world today is computer technology, Indians, famous for both their technological and business skills, are ever more in evidence, even...