Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...migration. The more pilgrims migrated to the promised land, the less promising it became." By 1992 Germany had half a million registered asylum seekers and it was estimated that twice that number had arrived illegally. These difficulties led to an anti-immigrant backlash in Germany, with groups of neo Nazis openly attacking anyone they perceived to be foreign. Germany had allowed an enormous number of refugees and migrants into its borders but had not been able to develop an effective plan for their assimilation or integration...
...expect to find in enterprises like The Matrix. Besides, there's real wit in their presentation of the Zionist oracle (who turns out to be a motherly black lady baking cookies in an old-fashioned kitchen), and real sexiness in Carrie-Anne Moss as super-buff Trinity, leading Neo to his destiny. Given a budget that encourages their kinesthetic skills, the filmmakers tend to go on a bit, but it's mostly a kind of quick, glancing hipness that's being indulged here. And that's a rare and welcome commodity in mass-market moviemaking these days...
...time you thought it was the media. Or maybe the swollen federal bureaucracy. Or just possibly the irreducible idiocy of humankind. That is to say, like Neo (Keanu Reeves), the reluctant but deeply curious hero of The Matrix, you had a vague sense that something was not quite right about life as we live it, that something was preventing you from realizing all your potential...
...English department has hired with an eye for gender studies, as if the their lack of specialists in that neo-modern discipline leaves a great void...
...membership. It is about 5,000 today, in contrast to a high of 5 million in the 1920s. But the Klan added 36 new chapters last year, for a total of 163, according to the Montgomery, Ala.-based Klanwatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Similarly, the neo-Nazi National Alliance--headed by William Pierce, author of the race-war fantasy The Turner Diaries--grew by 13 chapters...