Word: numbering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Percent drop in lung cancer in California since the launch of an anti-smoking campaign in 1989. The number of smokers dropped...
Three attractive, messed-up sisters and their mother, who has just buried her second husband, try to stage a Christmas celebration in this soberly stated, quietly expert French comedy. You can't imagine the number of husbands and lovers, current and former, who need to be accounted for at the holiday feast. There's also an unacknowledged sibling and a troubling pregnancy to be dealt with. But deft direction and an elegant ensemble combine to make an ironic, dryly sentimental comment on the clash between Yule tradition and postmodern sexual anarchy...
...form as a producer, laying down beats for each number that are spare but never simplistic and that reverberate with menace, like footsteps following you down an alleyway late at night. The verbal flow on the album is involving and smooth; there's a smart mix of jokey lines ("In a room full of crackers/ I might cut the cheese," runs a passage on the track Redbull) and serious statements. A section on I Can't Go to Sleep laments, "Somebody raped our women/murdered our babieshit us with the crack and guns/in the early...
...fault lines ran every which way as larger states squared off against the smaller ones over the number of votes each member should have, but historic rivalries among the British, French and Germans also limited the extent to which they were willing to present a united front. Germany was forced to back away from demands that its share of votes in the councils of Europe be expanded to reflect the fact that its population exceeds that of Britain, France and Italy by 20 million - Berlin currently shares equally the highest number of E.U. votes with those three countries...
...best parsed by the reactions of the various players. The smaller eastern European states that have been waiting on the doorstep are thrilled - their European "citizenship" will be granted on an equal footing with current members (Poland, for example, managed to win agreement that it would have the same number of votes as Spain, based on the equivalence in population size), and the summit also indicated that the door will be open to some of them as early as 2003. Among the current member states, some of the smaller nations were happy at holding back the designs on greater power...