Word: knit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Collective action on a global scale will be easier to achieve in a world already knit together by cables and airwaves. The fax machine had much to do ! with the downfall of tyrants in Eastern Europe. Two years ago, I was assigned an interpreter in Estonia who spoke with a slight Southern accent because she had learned her English watching Dallas, courtesy of TV signals beamed over the border from neighboring Finland. The Cosby Show, aired on South African television, has no doubt helped erode apartheid...
...dorms are small,oft-forgottenMower and Lionel. Onlyabout 70 people live back here in the secluded,recently re-landscaped courtyard. Lionel and Mowersuites have large common rooms with beautiful woodfloors, and most residents live in singles forpart of the year. Some residents of these intimatedorms say the close-knit experience is nurturingand caring. Others complain that the familyatmosphere can grow a bit too suffocating...
...land, close-knit families are thriving...
...which debuted in 1984, rejuvenated TV's interest in the traditional two-parent family. Today relatively stable, two- parent families make up the overwhelming majority on TV: nostalgic ones (The Wonder Years, Brooklyn Bridge), contemporary ones (Home Improvement, Major Dad), farcically expanded ones (Step by Step) and lovingly close-knit ones (Life Goes On). Even hip, teen-dominated shows like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Beverly Hills, 90210 have, at their center, strong families. The comparatively few single parents on TV nearly always have other caring adults around the house -- a trio of fathers in Full House...
...peak of his powers. Recorded with the Gramercy Five, as Shaw called the combo he occasionally assembled around him, these 20 tracks were laid down only months before he retired. Some were fleetingly available on LP years ago; the rest were never released. They are sublime chamber jazz -- close-knit yet relaxed, subtle, pulsing with the interplay of brilliant sidemen like pianist Hank Jones and guitarist Tal Farlow...