Word: anti-nazi
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...Nasty Girl Michael Verhoeven's exuberant, stylish satire, based on recent fact, examines the lingering shadow Nazism casts across Germany and the obsessive determination of one teenager to expose it. As the anti-Nazi girl, Lena Stolze is impish, imperious, utterly adorable...
...fragile beauty has cast her on film as Isadora Duncan, Mary Queen of Scots and Guinevere. Her toughness made her an anti-Nazi adventurer in Julia and a fierce literary agent in Prick Up Your Ears. Onstage in the summer of 1986 in London, she demonstrated her range by alternating as the worldly queen in Antony and Cleopatra and the humiliated, housebound maiden in The Taming of the Shrew. If anything linked those two roles, it was only the pained look they shared, that unforgettable gaze from those grave and piercing eyes as they take in the unimaginable perfidy...
...time the evening had ended, though, many were left wondering whether the production was anti-Nazi or anti-Semitic. Schoenberg's libretto makes an explicit extended centerpiece out of the episode of the Golden Calf: gold is collected and formed into an idol; a ritual slaughter of animals is followed by a sacrifice of Four Naked Virgins; there is an orgy of drunkenness, sexual license and suicide. By forsaking emotionally neutral biblical robes for specific ghetto mufti (only Moses, portrayed by Bass-Baritone Theo Adam, is outfitted in Old Testament garb), Ponnelle risked having the quarrelsome Jews appear like characters...
...game and falls in love with his cousin who is really in love with a gambling revolutionary. She gets pregnant; he marries her; she abandons him and child; he meets his painting mentor who takes him to Germany to engage in an obscure and slightly unethical anti-Nazi plot; he makes his reputation as an art critic by revealing a forgery...
Both magazines met with a lukewarm response when they tried to sell syndication rights to U.S. television networks for up to $600,000. After the news conference in Sao Paulo, moreover, Menachem Russek, the retired head of an Israeli police anti-Nazi unit, confessed that he was "not angry but disappointed" that Mengele had apparently died unregenerate and unpunished. Others were finding the Mengele myth equally difficult to abandon. "I admit to having hoped that Mengele would have been more intriguing than the other Nazi fugitives," acknowledged Archivist Posner. "A number of us had fantasies about a man living deep...