Word: amsterdam
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Life precipitated in the city, the locus of modernism. His own cities were Leipzig, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris and Florence up to the coming of Hitler; Paris and Amsterdam during the war; and refuge, after it, in St. Louis and New York, where he died in 1950. But they tend to merge in his work into a single place. This city was the great human switchboard, the cruncher of experience, where events acquired a formidable urgency and swiftness, where people were forced together and the distances between them grew. It stood for oppression, strain, careful poses and unmediated confessions--above...
Wolff said he originally planned to reveal his findings in a paper he will give at the Bach gala. But late last month he received a phone call from a journalist in Amsterdam who said he had heard rumors of "possible unknown Bach works in a private collection in America." Wolff said he "thought someone might be on the trail" and decided to make his discovery known...
...Luxembourg, protesters swamped the U.S. and Japanese embassies with so many telephone calls that they blocked the lines. In cities as far apart as Bonn, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Christchurch, New Zealand, demonstrators paraded outside the two nations' embassies. In Copenhagen, the harbor statue of the Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...
...somewhat baffled readers, "they were not suitable for publication in a family newspaper." When the Daily News printed a revealing snapshot, along with an exclusive interview with Barrows after her arrest, the Post promptly splashed across half a page its picture of the young socialite reclining naked upon an Amsterdam hotel...
Jerome Crabbe stars as the flamboyant gay novelist Gerard Reve, Flat broke. Reve is on his way to do a reading for a literary club in a small town called Flushing when, at the Amsterdam train station, he sights a nicely-built young fellow. After an effort to follow the man. Reve loses sight...