Word: austria
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...life he'd regretted having referred to his military service there as a duty done, and he acknowledged that it was a mistake to have excised the Balkans from his memoirs. More importantly, and largely as a result of what will always be known as the Waldheim Affair, Austria finally got beyond its mythic self-image as the first victim of National Socialism and faced up to its own share of responsibility in Hitler's assault on human values. Waldheim was an ambiguous marker on that road to a broader truth...
...From Kazakhstan, Aliyev rushed back to Austria, where he made a statement to an online magazine he controlled, dismissing the charges as a part of slander campaign. The real reason, he said, was his informing Nazarbayev of his intentions to run for Presidency in 2012. An enraged Nazarbayev stripped his son-in-law of the ambassadorship and dispatched a group of top law enforcers aboard a special flight to bring the culprit home. They came back empty-handed. "Under the circumstances," Aliyev explained yesterday in a phone interview from Vienna to a Kazakh online magazine, "only a suicide will come...
...intervention saved Aliyev from the wrath of an enraged Nazarbayev, who then exiled Aliyev to Vienna as ambassador. Aliyev was able to return only in July 2005, when an appeased Nazarbayev promoted him to First Deputy Foreign Minister, a post he would hold concurrently with the ambassadorship to Austria...
...Import Export. Director Ulrich Seidl tells two unrelated stories - of Austrian men working in Ukraine, and of a young Ukrainian woman who comes to Austria - with the earthshaking message that men are bad and women put up with them. The guys spend their spare time degrading women they pick up in bars, making one strip, crawl on the floor and bark like a dog. Women pose naked before a camera, following the rude commands of Web cam masturbators. In a hospital for the aged, nurses perform perfunctory tasks for old droolers, whom Seidl photographs unpityingly. The humiliations - of the characters...
...long way from the rustling brocades of 18th Century Austria here, and I don't think I'll be sliding Bug into my DVD player on a regular basis in the future. But still, there is a conviction here that (a) transcends any attempt to categorize the film generically and (b) challenges the lax, we're-just-kidding-around spirit of most American movies (see, or rather don't see Grindhouse, for example). Like it or not, Bug takes you deep into the realm of abnormal psychology. Like it or not, it is a serious movie, very possibly Friedkin...