Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What isn't natural is going crazy--for sadness to linger on into debilitating depression, for anxiety to grow chronic and paralyzing. These are largely diseases of modernity. When researchers examined rural villagers in Samoa, they discovered what were by Western standards extraordinarily low levels of cortisol, a biochemical by-product of anxiety. And when a Western anthropologist tried to study depression among the Kaluli of New Guinea, he couldn't find...
...When in doubt, do it again. A few years ago, Robert Rodriguez made the tamale western El Mariachi for an impossibly low $7,000. Now he has made a sequel--for 1,000 times the budget, which is still nothing to Hollywood accountants. This time it's called Desperado. The avenging guitarist is played by actual movie star Antonio Banderas, but he's still a reluctant gunaholic. ("Bless me, Father," he confesses, "for I have killed quite a few men.") Salma Hayek, a Tex-Mex houri with soulful eyes and bosoms till Tuesday, is the sex interest. And Living...
...deeds." Last week, it seemed, the pitilessness that has devoured so much of the former Yugoslavia since 1991 was at last choking itself toward extinction. Strife that has fed on vengeful mythologies and minor cultural differences was succumbing, among many southern Slavs, to a universality of victimhood. Around the western Balkans, sorry droves of refugees could almost have exchanged identities as they toted a few spare relics from their past lives into banishment...
...that it seems wishful thinking to believe he would do so on these terms. If the Clinton plan falters on eastern Slavonia, it leaves the biggest source of friction in the Balkans unremedied. "Even a fairly small event there could very rapidly escalate beyond anybody's imagination," says a Western military analyst in Zagreb...
...safe areas'' without losing much human life [BOSNIA, July 31]. But it does not want to do so because that would ultimately lead to the creation of a Muslim state. The West's opposition to lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia is another proof of the hidden motives of Western powers. FAIYAZ AHMED Chetpet, India...