Word: polyglotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pitiful polyglot pose...
...came to Yiddish literature rather than having been brought up in it; it's something I struggled to possess," says Wisse, who was raised in what she calls the "polyglot multicultural atmosphere" of Montreal...
...gaze with a world in harmony with our desires" (the same line is quoted in For Ever Mozart). A French playwright (Michel Piccoli) is hired for a rewrite job by an American producer (Jack Palance) who has eyes for the writer's sexy wife (Brigitte Bardot). With its polyglot cast and mixed-doubles leering, Contempt gets the Babel and Babylon of filmmaking down perfectly...
...campus cause is discrimination against "transgendered persons." Body piercing has gone mainstream. As in the return of Hush Puppies and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Xer chic is often retroeclectic. "Compared to any other generation born in this century, theirs is less cohesive, its experiences wider, its ethnicity more polyglot and its culture more splintery," write historians William Strauss and Neil Howe in their new book, The Fourth Turning, a study of generational change. "Today's young adults define themselves by sheer divergence...
...real crime was falling behind the times. The old black-white stereotypes are out of date, and Zoeller is just the latest casualty of America's failure to come to grips with the perplexing and rapidly evolving significance of racial identity in what is fast becoming the most polyglot society in history...