Word: americana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...selling for a quarter at thrift shops. "Now everything goes for the highest price anyone in the world is willing to pay for it," she says. Hoff is worried that online auctions may ultimately spell the end of flea markets and thrift shops, and that an important slice of Americana will be lost...
...centuries ago, Russia, Prussia, Britain and Austria rallied together to defeat Napoleonic France's bid for European hegemony. The miracle of the '90s has been the dog that didn't bark: Where is the opposition, where are the coalitions of second-rank states rising to challenge Pax Americana...
...mind if they test a nuke or two, the world of the 21st century is sure to be full of nations with nuclear arms. Is that what America wants? I have always looked up to the U.S. because it demonstrates the meaning of democracy, justice, equality and vision. Pax Americana is welcome because the U.S. has been reliable. But recently the U.S. hasn't been leading other countries into a bright future. It no longer seems able to keep pace with the progress of history. HIRO TAKAHASHI Hiroshima
...exists is to describe the inexplicable. Indeed, it is quite difficult to characterize Frisell's music. Able to rework tunes from Dylan to Madonna to John Phillip Sousa as well as create a spatially expansive body of his own work, Frisell's music has been called the essence of "Americana." No doubt it is the sense of recognition, springing not so much from an elusive nostalgia as a surprisingly warm and engaging familiarity, that carries Frisell's music...
...Abercrombie & Fitch is more than a place where you buy corduroys. You also buy the white sugar-coated Americana image, which they have so kindly packaged into a reader-friendly magazine/catalogue complete with a "parental-consent-suggested" sticker on the cover. You buy into a set of specific social criteria that few people, possibly including yourself, can satisfy. You choose to buy into an organization that chose to carve out its niche in the fashion world by excluding rather than diversifying...