Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly politicized Islam a threat to secular rule in Turkey...
...Ewings. But, really, Dallas was what it criticized. Endlessly fascinated with the lives of the rich and pretty, the show looked rich and pretty too, like a Black Forest cake. With sumptuous production values and characters who spent every available petrodollar, Dallas elevated conspicuous consumption to a secular religion: gaud almighty. It introduced viewers to the Greedy '80s, by establishing as a pop icon a Texas oilman who believed it's not what you get that matters, it's what you can get away with. In that age of winks and nudges, Trumps and Harts, the show understood that...
...tiny horizon of Always the Best Man Wins, 1920. And sometimes it discloses an erotic fury, a Dionysiac madness bursting the collar studs and corsets of life, as in the collage-narrative The Dream of a Little Girl Who Wanted to Become a Nun, 1929-30. In a secular age with its "therapeutic" religions, we find it hard to imagine the power of blasphemy to the Surrealists. All the same, Ernst came up with the funniest antireligious joke in modern art -- the famous (and, alas, rarely seen) parody of a Renaissance Madonna, in which Mary is whaling Jesus...
...neighbors suffer at the hands of the new society. Tsirele's father is impoverished and powerless under new legal codes, and her brother, educated in a state-run Jewish school, loafs about on the balcony, out of school for a secular holiday. Even Max's friends, the old Warsaw lowlifes, feel that they have lost control of the city's crime networks...
...were the Kurds Saddam's only new victims. While civilians throughout Iraq struggled to replace shattered power plants and water lines -- not to mention scrounging for food -- the regime also threw its energy into smashing the Shi'ites in the south who want Saddam's secular Baathist regime replaced by Islamic rule. In the five weeks since the liberation of Kuwait, Baghdad has retaken every major rebel-held city and town, sometimes with terrifying vindictiveness...