Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...form some other nations consider to be as important as film or novels--the comic strip. Although Americans have started to cultivate taste for the work of artists and animators from Japan, where comics have been "taken seriously" for years, realization has yet to hit the U.S. that our Western European neighbors have been developing the graphic narrative into an adult, provocative art form for decades. The French, once again, are light-years ahead...
...Boston organizations; its goal is "to introduce European comics to the American public on the 100th anniversary of comics in the United States." The material that has been chosen is interesting and engaging, and the documentation offers a fairly thorough look at the development of comics in French-speaking Western Europe over the last fifty years. Unfortunately, the supporting information is not as richly detailed as it could be, nor does it offer any background material on the history and culture against which it's being presented. The result is that, to the viewer with no previous knowledge of comics...
...number of tuberculosis cases worldwide has leveled off for the first time in decades thanks to a new treatment plan which trains health care workers to make sure patients take their medicine. But the organization warned the skyrocketing number of TB cases in former Soviet bloc countries could afflict Western Europe and possibly the rest of the world if the plan is not vigorously applied there. The treatment strategy, known as DOTS -- Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course -- simply instructs medical workers, teachers and others to observe TB patients more closely in order to prevent them from terminating their treatment plans...
...answer to this question cannot be provided without a quick glance at the western historical preoccupation with female virginity. For most of Western history, and even in our current history, virginity has been an exclusively female phenomenon...
...heir to the Mellon fortune who funds some of the most virulent anti-Clinton organizations. Although former counsel Robert Fiske, the coroner and the FBI found that Vince Foster's death was a suicide, Starr reopened that investigation. Scaife has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Western Journalism Center, whose newspaper ads obsessing over the circumstances of Foster's death have pulled in nearly a quarter of a million dollars during the 2 1/2 years Starr has held the question open. A leak last week that the counsel had found no foul play may have been calculated...