Word: popularization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...powers can hardly be imagined than Vladimir Horowitz's 1951 Carnegie Hall performance of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. He summons a galaxy of dynamics and colors from the instrument until, in the finale, he builds a mountain of gloriously controlled sound. The disk also includes Tchaikovsky's popular Concerto No. 1, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. A piano lover's dream...
...year ago, before revolution toppled the Communists in what used to be the German Democratic Republic, so matter-of-fact an assessment would have been unthinkable. Lafontaine, the charismatic Saarland state premier, looked like a strong challenger to Kohl, who was less respected and less popular than his party. Lafontaine, 47, appealed to younger voters as a maverick who ranged wide of the Social Democratic establishment and party orthodoxy. A pacifist, keen on environmental issues and allergic to any invocation of nationalist sentiment, he was touted as the "posthistorical politician." In his campaign, Lafontaine even shunned using the black...
...last businesses in which America clearly dominates the world market. Every year consumers around the world buy $300 billion worth of movie tickets, compact discs, videotapes and other American entertainment products. One-fourth of those sales are overseas. No other country's film industry creates such universally popular entertainment. In Europe, American films capture at least half the box office. The top-grossing film in Japan last year, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, earned $32 million in theaters, twice as much as the most popular Japanese film. Of the 27 movies currently showing in Rio's cinemas...
...same time, pop culture reaching America may become more diverse as the country becomes a crossroads for new entertainment. In the past year or so, Americans have been treated to such unlikely musical stars as the Gipsy Kings, a popular French-flamenco band, and the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir...
While governments around the world have rallied to join George Bush's anti- Saddam coalition, popular support for military involvement in the gulf is shallow even among some of America's staunchest allies. For other countries tangled in the alliance, war is a minority, potentially untenable proposition...