Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't. (That was Isadora Duncan for you.) But in 1929, when Brassai was finally launched into the embrace of photography, after years of resisting its charms, it really was for keeps. Though the young Hungarian arrived in Paris in 1924 ambitious to be a painter, he spent his first years working as a journalist. Eventually he started taking pictures to accompany his articles. It was his initial embarrassment at mere picture taking that led him to publish his photos under a pseudonym, Brassai, a Hungarian word meaning "from Brasso," his childhood village. He wanted to save his birth name...
Unfortunately, Handy, who's out on bail pending an investigation in Spain, isn't the only traveler venting air rage. Ten days ago, a drunken, unruly Finnish passenger on a Malev Hungarian flight died after the crew reportedly strapped him to his seat and injected him with tranquilizers...
...Buys Tungsram, a lighting maker, from Hungarian government. Sells aerospace business (except jet engines). Sells Kidder, Peabody...
...Rugrats creators pretend to be sanguine about the cluttered calendar. Says Gabor Csupo, the Lugosi-accented Hungarian who with ex-wife Arlene Klasky launched the show in 1991: "The biggest problem is most of the time for children there is nothing of quality their whole family can enjoy. I love competition. It's healthy--it makes everybody work harder and do better work. The strong will survive. If you have a kid, they at least want to go every second weekend to the movies. So there are plenty of weekends from now until the Christmas season for every quality film...
...into several sections, the book continues the discussion of the Stonewall riots with a quick overview of the prohibitions against homosexuality, including punishments and laws associated with such legal and religious condemnation, as well as an investigation into the origins of the term "homosexual" itself. Coined by a Hungarian author, the term was quickly adopted by doctors who, excited by concrete terminology, quickly proceeded to diagnose it as an illness to be treated. At the same time, however, the term could serve as a label, providing a disorganized group of individuals with an identity, a self-definition to gather around...