Word: altes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preposterously prolific career (some 40 films, and many theater pieces, in 13 years), he had always viewed the soul's most traumatic ructions as blips on an electrocardiogram. The detachment was not merely ironic. Two mismatched mates could come together and drift apart, as they did in Alt: Fear Eats the Soul; a hard-won life could blow up in its heroine's face, as it did in The Marriage of Maria Braun; a cunning mind could schuss down the Alps of dementia, as it did in Despair; and Fassbinder would watch, and show. He was a camera...
...Portage to San Cristobal of Alt, by George Steiner...
...penchant for mystery in the competitive and highly sensitive area of fees, New York City's aggressive Elite agency recently provided clients with an astonishingly explicit schedule of the hourly and daily rates of its stable of talent. Although the fee for a high-profile beauty like Carol Alt, 21 (Lancôme), is listed as "negotiable" - meaning that if you have to ask, you probably can't afford her - the agency nonetheless appears to have something to offer almost any budget. Prices begin at $2,000 a day for, say, blond Beauty Nancy Donohue, 24. Like some...
...fencing team lost to Yale, 17-0 while the women fell to the Elis, 9-7. However, Steve Kauffer (3-0 in the meet) and Dave Heyman (2-1) were expected to be selected to the Alt-Ivy squad...
Says Joyce Alt, director of nursing at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, which offers 30 different schedules: "Absenteeism has been reduced by 50% and turnover by 55%." One contented M.D. Anderson nurse is Laurie Hendley, 36, who now works two 16-hour shifts on a weekend. Before, she says, "I was working 10%-hour shifts, sometimes four days at a stretch. I couldn't get enough rest...