Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican party to which he had devoted his political career -- the party that Goldwater had almost single-handedly transformed in the sixties from a stolid, moderate force dominated by the Eastern elite to a movement of crisp conservatism with a populist Southern and Western base -- was no longer recognizable...
...come on! Your critic Robert Hughes [ART, April 27] wrote that author Victor Hugo's "drawings make up one of the most striking testimonies to the image-forming power of the unconscious in all Western art." That statement is unconscionable. And the fact that Hugo produced 3,000 known or extant drawings does not make him an artist; most of us working artists produce that in just one year. And what is so unusual about Hugo's exhibit of talent in another field of the arts? Most artists share the ability to expand into other realms because of the need...
Hotel companies also provide a mix of unusual nontravel rewards. Best Western International's 10-year-old Gold Crown Club International program gives its members 3 points for every $1 spent at a Best Western hotel. The points can be redeemed for everything from groceries to savings bonds to movie passes. Points can also be exchanged for gift certificates at major retailers like Home Depot, Macy's and the Sharper Image. "With enough points, you can go to Home Depot and redo your whole kitchen," says Wayne Wielgus, vice president of worldwide marketing and sales for Best Western. "Our members...
...help to scrutinize exactly what it is we will be losing when Seinfeld goes off the air and whether all this fuss is justified. One way to approach these questions is to look at the show in the historical context of America's signature contribution to Western civilization: the situation comedy. What makes Seinfeld so special compared with sitcoms of the past? Is it better, more popular, more innovative? A careful review of the evidence suggests that while Seinfeld is certainly a very praiseworthy and funny program, it is not necessarily the ne plus ultra of television comedy...
...shake up the unsettled telecom industry, highly acquisitive SBC Communications announced it would buy Ameritech in a $62 billion stock swap. The combined entity would comprise three of the original seven Baby Bells with more than $40 billion in annual revenues, controlling some 57 million lines in 13 Western and Midwestern states. Only U.S. West now stands between SBC control of nearly three quarters of the U.S. Throw in telecom deregulation that should eventually allow local phone companies to enter the long distance market even as households are adding second and third lines for Internet access, and suddenly San Antonio...