Word: hollywoodism
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...marching in place to set the rhythms and humming their melodies. With coyly lifted pants legs, they beat time with their feet, followed by a waist-high kick. Their coiled restraint hints at martial Zulu moves. Much in evidence to an American observer are the familiar echoes of old Hollywood vaudeville movies and the African-American companies that toured South Africa more than a century ago, bringing both step-dance movements and spirituals. During the concert, virtuoso performers nonchalantly step from the line to exhibit their special talents. Each soloist's voice projects like several musical instruments playing at once...
...between them in goods and investment, making each the other's most important market. Who's the biggest employer in France after the government? The 1,250 American companies operating there. What were the top movies in Germany last week? Mel Gibson's What Women Want and the Hollywood thriller Hannibal. Vivendi owns Universal, Daimler owns Chrysler, and top Daimler executives (like many in multinational European companies) are required to speak English. It's true that Hispanic and Asian immigration and business ties are shifting America's focus to the south and west, and that all the transatlantic cultural overlap...
...mall," says Peary, who at one point wanted to get married in the Brattle. "People like the feel-good Hollywood movies...
...dispensing commonsense advice in an overhyped package. Hogg's book, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (Ballantine Books), is the latest phenomenon in the business of selling parenting advice to the sleep deprived. Hogg knows from her years as a baby nurse to the rich, powerful (and apparently clueless) Hollywood elite that new parents will grasp at any straw to help deal with life with a newborn. Her book is best read by parents who are so exhausted they won't notice that Hogg, like my aunt Lena, is telling them what they probably already know...
James Nachtwey's photographs of AIDS patients represent more than just a thousand words each. They sometimes have the power to tell the whole story. THEO KINGMA Hollywood...