Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playoffs started now, the Maple Leafs would be the fourth Western Conference seed and would have home-ice advantage in their opening series against the Blackhawks...
...WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest W L Pct. GB L10Streak Home Away Conf. x-San Antonio 58 20 .744 - 8-2 W 2 31-8 27-12 37-13 x-Utah 56 22 .718 2 6-4 W3 31-8 25-14 32-18 x-Houston 47 32 .595 11.5 6-4W3 25-15 22-17 27-24 Denver 38 40 .487 20 6-4 L 1 21-18 17-22 24-26 Dallas 35 43 .449 23 4-6 L 1 18-21 17-22 22-28 Minnesota...
...again. This is an industry that seems to thrive on crises. Drama counts. For every sublime Miyake, there is always someone out there on a toot. Even designers who usually make well-cut, wearable clothes, like Donna Karan, get the fever. In her DKNY show, the city girl went western, featuring dubious slinky pants with a phony chaps look, crinoline-shaped frontier skirts and hats that were at least seven gallons. In Paris, Jean-Paul Gaultier, perennial idol of the fashion press, indulged in one of his toughest tart looks ever. Each of his models had one eye blackened...
...powerful are Jerusalem's psychic ethers that Kfar Shaul sees 50 such patients a year. About half are from North America-usually the U.S.-and the rest come mainly from Western Europe; cases are equally split between Christians and Jews (the city's few Muslim tourists have so far managed to keep their wits intact). According to Moshe Kalian, a psychiatrist at Kfar Shaul, Jerusalem Syndrome may be set off by the thrill of visiting a place previously known only as a sublime dream-"like a movie-star fan who suddenly gets to kiss his idol." Or sufferers may fall...
...would think, all the first-rate Western artists of our fading century are known and labeled. Not necessarily. Consider Ian Fairweather, a Scot by birth, who, after a long life in China, Bali and Australia, died in 1974 at age 83. Totally unknown in America and Europe, he was the best abstract painter-though "abstract" does no justice to the imagistic subtlety of his work-that Australia ever harbored, and one of the very few modern artists to make a convincing bridge between Eastern calligraphic traditions and Western drawing. He was also-suspect though the term has become...