Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the Western Avenue stop light swinging uselessly over the stage, eighteenth century noblemen, dreadlocked students and young parents with children perched on their shoulders swayed back and forth to tunes like "Bourgeois" and "Let Them Eat Rock...
Dinosaur babies figure prominently in The Lost World, just as they do in much current paleontological research. The recent discovery of a number of well-preserved dino nests in the western U.S. and Mongolia has convinced scientists that the terrible lizards were actually nurturing parents, watching lovingly over their hatchlings and bringing them tidbits of food, like robins tending their chicks. Crichton's creatures do the same, to the horror of at least one tidbit...
...Hussein's cousin and son-in-law. A true hard-liner, he oversaw Iraq's program to develop weapons of mass destruction and, as he indirectly admits below, was responsible for brutal repression of Shi'ites and Kurds after the Gulf War. In his first major interview with a Western journalist, Hussein Kamel talked to diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer in Amman. On one matter he was almost certainly dissembling: though he denies it, authoritative sources say he has met with CIA officials since his defection...
...real story from Beijing, if we were to listen to the 40,000 women gathered there, is that there are precious few female-friendly spots on earth. In fact, the real story may be something we would rather not hear at all, since it contradicts every cherished Western notion of "progress"--that instead of advancing, women, on average, seem to be losing ground. A study by the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union finds that the percentage of women elected to national legislatures has dropped worldwide almost 25% in the past seven years. Human Rights Watch reported in August that such...
...pulled-punches page turner of a diplomatic history, spiced with anecdotes and insights. He recounts how Stalin once told his Ambassador to the U.S., Andrei Gromyko, to learn English by listening to sermons in American churches. How Dobrynin, during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, communicated with Moscow via Western Union, which sent a bicycle messenger to pick up coded cables. How Moscow secretly offered financial aid to Vice President Hubert Humphrey for his 1968 presidential campaign against Richard Nixon (Humphrey declined the offer). How Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev got drunk while visiting Nixon at San Clemente and vilified Soviet...