Word: franca
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Unfortunately, recent events have grown too terrible even for the king of all jesters. Johan Padan was supposed to be the beginning of a three-part festival celebrating Dario Fo’s stage career; he and his long-time collaborator Franca Rame had scheduled a return to the A.R.T. for performances of Mistero Buffo and Sex? Thanks, Don’t Mind If I Do. Now, however, those performances have been canceled...
...American palate increasingly accepts and incorporates foreign cuisines, grilling is an early adapter. "The Indonesian satay guy, the Indian tandoori master, the Argentinian asador, the Mexican carnita lady all have a lingua franca with the Texas brisket guy," says Raichlen. But to cook these new dishes, the patio daddios need temperature control, they need more than one method of cooking and they at least think they need to upgrade constantly. "We tell people the [$5,000] Ultimate Grill is the last grill they'll ever have to buy," says David Lally at Frontgate, a high-end home furnishings-catalog company...
...orphan, isn't the only one living in fear along this border, where China's ethnic Koreans are concentrated and Korean is as much the lingua franca as Chinese. Unlike the heavily guarded demilitarized zone that delineates North Korea's border with the South, this is a porous, Wild West frontier, teeming with traders, smugglers, government agents and bride traffickers. More than 300,000 North Koreans were in the area in 1999, according to a clandestine survey carried out by Good Friends. The lucky ones live with relatives or find their way to an underground missionary shelter. The others...
...another reason: U.S. law is becoming the lingua franca of international business. Last year 1,400 foreign nationals enrolled in standard three-year programs at U.S. law schools. An additional 2,800 enrolled in master of laws programs--a 62% increase since 1996. Most of these master's students have earned law degrees in other countries and find the programs attractive because they can usually be completed in one year...
...Then he put his lines on a modified musical staff, with the vertical axis representing the rotation of the record and the horizontal axis representing time. Ever since, he's been refining the system he calls TTM, turntablist transcription methodology. "Before notation, the music didn't have a lingua franca," says Carluccio. "People would refer to certain scratches, like a baby scratch"--which moves the record back and forth without mixer controls--"or a drag"--a slow scratch that creates a low pitch--"but no one knew how to replicate them precisely." With the help of industrial designer Ethan Imboden...