Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...music and religious belief throughout their diaspora. But rarely have their host countries made them feel welcome. They were legally able to be enslaved in Europe until the mid-19th century, and the hostility they suffered throughout the continent reached its zenith during World War II, when more than half a million died in Nazi concentration camps ?- losses almost proportional to those suffered by Jews...
...down nature of funds that invest in developing regions. Risk has rewards: emerging-markets funds are up an average of 32% this year, beating the Standard & Poor's 500 by a factor of three. No broad area of stock investing has paid off bigger in the first half...
Juliette Binoche has one of the world's magnificent faces--delicate, intelligent, grave, questing--and this 1991 romance (just released in the States) is the most lustrous showcase for her haggard purity. The plot groans with lower-depths anomie: Michele, a painter who is half blind, camps out on Paris' Pont-Neuf with Alex, a fire eater who is more than half mad. But Carax vitalizes the film with images that sparkle, smolder, catch fire; he might be offering Michele a last visual banquet before her eyes close forever. Binoche's beauty is, naturally, the main course. One watches...
...half of this amazing off-Broadway pair is balding and a whiz with a microphone, able to replicate everything from bacon frying to a dog exploding. His long-haired, supple-limbed partner silently acts all this out in perfect synch. Just when you think you've seen the best sound-effects guy and the best mime ever teamed onstage, they switch roles. Fast, inventive, cheerfully crude and wittily self-aware (parodies of Star Wars and Marcel Marceau too), Thwak might be classified as performance art, but we call it pure theater and pure...
Sure, you love talking chimps. But do you love the creatures enough to watch a full half-hour of them? More than once? Sober? The idea and execution here are adequate: chimps run a network on which they parody current TV shows and make fun of Hollywood. Just in case Ted Turner could resist talking chimps, the creators have the fake network run by a mean, stupid Australian mogul to mock Turner's rival, Rupert Murdoch. The real fear is that TBS's Turner might turn this show into an actual channel. Chimps all day may sound appealing...