Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into widespread use throughout the Islamic world in the mid-15th century. Fifty years later, Arab power was finished. And soon after, so was the Ottoman Empire. In 1699, the Turkish advance was stopped once and for all at the gates of Vienna. But now it was the Habsburgs' turn. Retreating, the Turks left their coffee sacks behind, and the Austrians took to mocha with the same passion they later devoted to waltzing along the Danube. In Austria's legendary coffeehouses, a great culture grew--from Mozart (who, alas, did not write the Coffee Cantata; that was Bach) to Kafka...
...month out of pocket, for instance. The strain is often made worse by the fact that families aren't prepared for the role of caregiver. In addition to coping with the sadness of a loved one's illness, they simply don't know what to do or where to turn to relieve the burden. Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., gerontologist and author of Age Power, suggests that the most vital thing a caregiver can do is find a trusted adviser--"a person, not a pamphlet"--to help lead a family through the thickets of health care, financial and emotional questions. "Families should...
...muddy pleasure of pigment itself, a fundamental notion of modern painting. In a few inches of sailcloth or the slip worn by his Girl at Mirror, he could put white paint through as many adventures as Robert Ryman does in his snow-flurry abstractions. As for his pieties, they turn out sometimes to be the same ones fundamental to civil society. By nothing less than an actual vote among Post readers, Saying Grace was his most popular canvas. In a flyblown city restaurant, a boy and his grandmother bow their heads to pray while everybody else looks...
...longer pays to be innovative and highly successful in marketing one's ideas in America. The nonachievers, well aware of their paucity of brains, attempt to destroy the successful at every turn. PAUL J. FROST Camas, Wash...
...hard to be one. With his hip-nerd uniform of a dark gray pinstripe suit and skateboarding sneakers, Stein, 55, basks in being recognized and, when that fails, in introducing himself to the wait staff by his full name. This week he hopes to up his recognition factor with Turn Ben Stein On, a talk show that airs on Comedy Central Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. E.T., right after his game show. The new show gathers, with mixed results, a small group of culturemakers to discuss a single topic, like high school or growing up in Hollywood. And Stein...