Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...business. Athletes now expect pampering off the court or field as long as they perform well on it. The notion that athletic prowess and sexual attraction go together reaches down to every budding jock who swaggered across a junior high schoolyard. Colleges routinely line up young campus beauties to orient athletically talented freshmen who have signed letters of intent. And the sexual mystique of the college sports hero lives on. Says Bill Little, sports information director at the University of Texas at Austin: "When I went to school here, girls always swooned around the football players. Now they do something...
...Ireland. He may have gone as far as Iceland too. Sometime between 1478 and 1484, the full plan of self- aggrandizement and discovery took shape in his mind. He would win glory, riches and a title of nobility by opening a trade route to the untapped wealth of the Orient. No reward could be too great for the man who did that...
...what? On the belief that one could reach China and "Cipangu" (Japan) by sailing west. No European ship had reached the Orient by sailing east around the bottom of Africa yet, either. But Columbus was convinced that the westward passage would be shorter and easier. The enterprise of the Indies had nothing to do with discovering America, or even with any suspicion that America existed. Columbus was looking for China and Japan, and long after reaching the Caribbean he remained convinced, against any and all evidence, that he had done...
Written in the tradition of such mystery novels as Murder on the Orient Express, Night Over Water takes place in a closed space from which no one can escape. The year is 1939, and war has just been declared between Britain and Germany. Pan American, which has recently introduced passenger service between the United States and Europe, sends a Flying Clipper off from Southampton, England. On board the luxurious plane, "high as a house and as long as a tennis court," are two dozen passengers and crew, each fearful that this will be the last flight out of Europe...
...early dance inspiration was surprising: Ruth St. Denis, who charmed audiences with free-form creations perfumed with the exoticism of the Orient. Entranced, Graham joined the Denishawn company, but left in 1923 to try Broadway dancing. By 1926 she had formed a group, which performed in New York. The masterpieces began to flow, as they would over several decades. There was a cluster of distinctively American works, such as Letter to the World, about Emily Dickinson, and the ever vernal Appalachian Spring. Though a quintessential modernist, she was attracted to doomed classical heroines: Clytemnestra, Medea, Alcestis, Phaedra...