Word: americanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...says Foreign Minister Shevardnadze, who helped liquidate the cold war, in a fiery resignation. And the hard right is in fact well organized, while democrats splinter. Worse, popular support seems to be swinging toward a crackdown. -- The U.S. deputy commander of American forces in the gulf says his troops won't be ready for war on Jan. 15 -- hardly the message Bush wants Saddam Hussein to hear. -- Is Germany fated to be haunted by revelations about former spies...
...year has become the traditional time of listmaking. (First Forgettable List of the Year: New Year's resolutions.) Lists may express people's instinct for order and compulsion to sum things up, but year-end lists also signify the American obsession with who's numero...
...befits the onset of the century's finale, a mixture of earnestness and irony -- a kind of American yin and yang -- characterized the year. The Northwest hamlet of Twin Peaks became the moody, ironic capital of the American landscape. Madonna, the queen of camp, literally and cheekily wrapped herself in the Stars and Stripes in a larky get-out-the-vote video. Even George Bush got into the irony act when he told America that since he is President, he no longer has to eat his broccoli...
...synching is another form of hypocrisy, and the revelations about the pop group Milli Vanilli seemed to be merely part of a trend. Lip-synching, in fact, is a new American art form. Herewith, the Leading Lip Synchers...
Dotan, who was arrested in October after a lengthy investigation, has allegedly confessed to pocketing more than $10 million in kickbacks, bribes and fictitious charges from American and Israeli defense firms over an eight- year period. Four other Israelis, including the air force's chief quartermaster, have also been detained...