Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tanglewood, the summer music mecca in western Massachusetts, is an enigma of identity. It is associated with some of the most promising young talent on the eastern seaboard, but its clientele is composed of the wealthy elderly who populate the Berkshires and eastern New York. With their champagne and Heinekens in hand (one wonders how vigilant Tanglewood is regarding alcohol regulations), these folks can be seen leaving an orchestra's final piece prematurely to beat the traffic, or heard to say, "Where's the music coming from?" In the summer, college students in this sparsely populated area...
...Hizballah's top leaders show no signs of mellowing when they speak of their enemies. While Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who took over as secretary- general last year after the Israelis killed his predecessor, opposes kidnapping Westerners, he scorns the U.S. "They are primarily responsible for all Israeli crimes," he says. His deputy, Sheik Naim Qassim, says last week's Israeli attacks will have no effect on Hizballah. "None of us is afraid to die," he says. "Our principles and aims are more important than our lives." Those aims include driving the Israelis from southern Lebanon and seeking...
...single satellite orbiting high above the equator has suddenly become one of the world's most coveted media properties. The satellite, partly owned by a fledgling Hong Kong company, has a simple function: it transmits a service called STAR TV, for Satellite Television Asia Region, which beams such Western television fare as the BBC and American programming such as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and MTV to impoverished slum dwellers in Cairo and the nouveaux riches in Zhangzhou. Though its current audience is a mere 13 million, the reason for its value is the size of its potential market...
...really happen. The vicious 16-month war among hate-filled neighbors that has soaked Bosnia and Herzegovina in blood -- and seared the conscience of the rest of the world -- might be coming to an end. But not because the combatants have seen the horror of their ways or the Western democracies have made justice prevail. If the killing does grind to a stop in the coming weeks, it will be more out of collective exhaustion than the result of any agreements or pressures the politicians are trying to impose...
...second villain appears from over another horizon -- that of the future, perhaps. He is Mox Mox, not so much a Western badman as a modern serial killer who likes to burn people. And Garza, the bank robber, is shown to be as shrewd and ruthless as Call in his prime, and much quicker. Ranger or not, Call is really too old for this kind of thing...