The genre became a specific draw in North America in the eighties when comedians such as Eddie Murphy started taking more action oriented roles such as in 48 Hrs.

Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games.

The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.

" The Mystery Writers of America have named their awards for excellence in the genre the " Edgars ".

The post – World War II folk revival in America and in Britain started a new genre, contemporary folk music and brought an additional meaning to the term folk music.

I want to do them like they're genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it's ashamed of it, and other countries don't really deal with because they don't feel they have the right to ".

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll " in 1950s America and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.

As a point of reference for the science fiction genre writer, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America define short story length Nebula Awards for science fiction submission guidelines as having a word count of fewer than 7, 500.

After releasing several unsuccessful games for the Famicom, Square relocated to Ueno, Tokyo in 1987 and developed a role-playing video game titled Final Fantasy, inspired by Enix's success with the genre, Dragon Quest ( later released in North America as Dragon Warrior ).

Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the " cyberpunk " genre.

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The phenomenal success of the Bond series lead to a deluge of imitators, such as the Eurospy genre and several from America.

From the 1960s up till the 1980s, under the guiding force of Lin Carter, a select group of writers formed the Swordsmen and Sorcerers ' Guild of America ( SAGA ) to promote and enlarge the sword and sorcery genre.

The young, flawed, and brooding antihero Spider-Man became the most widely imitated archetype in the superhero genre since the appearance of Superman and Batman .— Bradford W. Wright, Comic Book Nation: The transformation of Youth Culture in America 212 — Superman on the Couch by Danny Fingeroth 151

Latin American music ( sometimes abbreviated as Latin music ) is a music genre encompassing rhythms and styles originated or related to Latin America, as well as derived music genres from the United States and Europe.

" Bands in the genre have experienced a more enthusiastic reception elsewhere with Mägo de Oz notably experiencing strong chart success in their native Spain, Mexico and South America.

The genre initially evolved separately in the United Kingdom, Japan, and North America, afterward gradually merging into a unified worldwide tradition.

In North America, the oldest game retrospectively classified as real-time strategy by several sources isThe Ancient Art of War ( 1984 ), designed by Evryware's Dave and Barry Murry, followed by the sequel The Ancient Art of War at Sea in 1987, although Dani Bunten Berry's ( of M. U. L. E fame ) Cytron Masters ( 1982 ), developed by Ozark Softscape and released by SSI, also has been considered the earliest game of the genre.

Gentleman's Agreement established his power in the " social conscience " genre in a film that took on the deep-seated but subtle antisemitism of mid-century corporate America. Twelve O ' Clock High was the first of many successful war films in which Peck embodied the brave, effective, yet human fighting man.

He was a member of a number of literary and genre organisations, including the Academy of Comic Book Arts and both the Authors Guild, the Authors League of America and the Science Fiction Writers of America.

* McOndo — a distinct genre of literature that follows magical realism in Latin and South America

The game was ported a decade later as part of the Phantasy Star Collection, which was released for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation 2 in Japan and for the Game Boy Advance in North America, where critics deemed it as a historically relevant step for its genre.

Folk rock may lean more toward folk or toward rock in its instrumentation, its playing and vocal style, or its choice of material ; while the original genre draws on music of Europe and North America, there is no clear delineation of which folk cultures music might be included as influences.

Trova as a genre has had broad influence across Latin America.

The champions of the Union maintained that the Constitution had formed, fundamentally, the united people of America, that it was a compact among sovereign citizens rather than states, and that therefore the states had no right to secede, though the citizens could.

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.

Land was near, and on June 12, one hundred and fourteen days after leaving America, they actually saw, twenty miles away, the coast of Orissa.

Mando, pleading her cause, must have said that Dr. Brown was the most distinguished physician in the United States of America, for our man poured out his symptoms and drew a madly waving line indicating the irregularity of his pulse.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

The editorial `` Confrontation '' was certainly direct in its appeal to those of us living here in America.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

The second speaker was Harvey Barcus, President of the Dog Writers Ass'n of America.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

The Serge Prokofieff whom we knew in the United States of America was gay, witty, mercurial, full of pranks and bonheur -- and very capable as a professional musician.

Prokofieff's outlook as a composer-pianist-conductor in America was, indeed, brilliant.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.

But if true, it was the case of which he had dreamed, the case which would throw him into headlines all over America as the hero of a great murder trial.

The female from Central America which gave birth to four was only 3 feet 11 inches long.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.