Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Western Front. 343 Western Ave., Cambridge. 492-7772. I-Tones on Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday...
...extraordinary event occurred at the Venice Film Festival. "Rashomon," a Japanese film by an unknown director named Akira Kurosawa, took first prize. The film caused heated debate in England and the United States, for "Rashomon" was unlike any film the Western critics and public had ever seen. The New Yorker dismissed it in a vitriolic and condescending article. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times championed it. Most people wondered that a good film should have come out of Japan at all, attributing its merits to the effects of the American occupation. In any case, RKO Pictures picked...
...white Europeans, the arbiters of the core national culture for most of its existence, are likely to slip into minority status. "Without fully realizing it," writes Martha Farnsworth Riche, director of policy studies at Washington's Population Reference Bureau, "we have left the time when the nonwhite, non-Western part of our population could be expected to assimilate to the dominant majority. In the future, the white, Western majority will have to do some assimilation...
...products office from Mexico City; Inter-Continental Hotels moved its base for the Americas down from New York; and Iberia Airlines left Los Angeles. Miami's success has been its ability to use its immigrant population to offer American products and business savvy in a Latin environment. "As the Western Hemisphere becomes more Hispanic, Miami has become the frontier city between 'America' and Latin America," explains Guillermo Grenier, the Cuban-born head of FIU's sociology department. The city offers not just trade but also services that range from banking and insurance to medical care. Miami remains Latin America...
...Dissidents are still arrested and thrown into prison. Even so, the high-energy drive for economic diversity and the freedom that offers to talented people have helped open the society -- so long as individuals do not challenge the state. "There is more openness in China now," says a senior Western diplomat in Beijing, "than at any time in the past, and far more than under Gorbachev in Russia...