Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what does it all mean? Taken at face value, the victory was just one of the two possible outcomes when a pair of grown men descend to bestial combat and carniverous promotional dealings. But there's a higher significance to the sport, or at least to this particular match...
...instance, the traditional pun-runs this year are short and actually advance the plot. The audience still groans, but the Shakespeare puns and the Cole Porter allusions in particular are very funny and even challenging. In addition, the writers have dispensed with the boring and often offensive pairing-off of the entire cast at the very end of the show. In fact, there are actually male characters who are friends with male characters and female ones, all without unnecessary homophobic references. The Pudding may yet move into the 1990s, or the '70s at least...
...meeting last spring, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence told the Minority Student Alliance (MSA) that academic fellowships for minority students represented a quick method of removing at least some economic barriers that led to homogeneous faculties. Spence emphasized that the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship in particular would be a long-term aid in increasing the number of minority faculty members...
Despite its seeming modesty of size and intention, Rowlandson's work found echoes in Europe. Particularly so in the efforts of Goya, who sometimes drew on English satirical prints as sources for his own graphic work. One can detect more than a few appropriations of Rowlandson in the Caprichos. And one of Goya's scariest images, They Preen Themselves -- one demon giving another a pedicure -- seems to come from Rowlandson's group of a woman cutting an officer's toenail in The French Barracks, 1786, though how Goya actually got to see this particular Rowlandson is a mystery...
After World War I, the "Far West," as the United States was called, began at last to enter the consciousness of "old" European culture. Germans, in particular, began using American products, listening to American music, and watching American movies. Artists active during the Weimar Republic heatedly debated the Americanization of their culture. Their artistic assessments range from the admiring, to the distrustful, to the bitterly critical...