Word: hellenization
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...four New Zealand-based performers of mixed Samoan and Fijian ancestry, there was the opportunity to share their stories through the unifying medium of water: Hellen Stowers performs a Fijian meke that was originally danced at the water's edge to farewell men going to war. But Nawalowalo, who is more interested in "how one adds to a picture," pushes traditional imagery into new realms. In a Samoan siva dance, she spotlights the hands so they appear out of the darkness like swimming squid. Later, she dramatizes the arrival of missionaries with a ship's sail, which passes before...
...trademark keyword search facility to retrieve e-mails. The gee-whiz feature: 1 GB of free storage - between 250 and 500 times more than at Yahoo and Hotmail. That means bulky holiday snaps won't easily overwhelm Gmail's In box. "MSN and Yahoo have to respond," warns Hellen Omwando, analyst at Forrester Research. "Consumers know they're very limited with current free offerings." But Gmail will come with a catch: the service will scan messages for frequently used words, and use the information to send users context-specific ads. It might only...
...religion found a home in Cambridge when the chapel at 50 Quincy Street was completed in 1901, just in time for Hellen Keller, a Swedenborgian of the class of 1904, to worship there...
...exhibit combines the work of American photographers Hellen Levit, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Danny Lyon, Lee Friedlander, Roger Mertin, John Pfahl, and Garry Winogrand, as well as Hungarian photographer Brassai, that, taken together, visually chronicle a developing American sense of self from the 1930's to the late...
EVERYTHING GERALD FORD touches seems to turn into the bland and mediocre. Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon all inspired savage and often brilliant satire, but Ford-based humor seems hardly able to rise above the level of Hellen-Keller-of-the-mind jokes. Perhaps it's too early to tell, but The Laughingstock, anyway, seems pretty much on this level--a collection of more or less political jokes instead of a satirical revue...