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Word: iranian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While Rosie and Xiu Xiu present complex themes that abounded at the festival, they cannot possibly represent the diverse range of films. Maggie Hadleigh-West's documentary War Zone explores street harassment and sexist catcalls across America. In Apple, young Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf captures twin girls viewing the outside world for the first time. Some films were less enlightening and simply plodding, such as Maria Ripoll's romantic comedy Once Upon a Yesterday, which features second chances and fate...

Author: By By SUSAN Yeh, | Title: Cinemanic | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...Today I am Serbian, Yugoslavian, Iranian and Guatemalan," Johnson said. "I am a good American...

Author: By Alysson R. Ford and Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Three Local Vigils Raise Awareness of Kosovo | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...iffier still whether anyone watching the segment will benefit from a dour-looking David Halberstam explaining that "the King" was an iconoclast and a "forerunner to youth culture." And while we're on the tricky subject of inclusions and omissions, how did the producers justify an hour on the Iranian hostage crisis and not, say, on the creation of Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Global One-Man Show | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...involving Chinese efforts to pilfer so-called critical technologies. FBI counterespionage specialists fear that the problem of spying isn't confined to Chinese visitors to the national labs. The FBI is taking a hard look at activities by scientists from several other nations, most notably Iran. For some years, Iranian scientists have visited the labs for exchanges that are ostensibly peaceful and beneficial, such as counterproliferation talks. Still, security at the labs has been so lax that FBI officials now want to find out if the Iranians or other foreigners picked up arms-related information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets, Part One | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...festival is different from traditional Islamic festivals, according to participants, because it is based on Persian culture, rather than the religion itself. The ancestors of present-day Iranian Muslims, Persians were originally Zoroastrians...

Author: By Harrel E. Conner jr., CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Persian Students Celebrate the New Year | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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