Word: backfisch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House opened its annual Wagner cycle. Not even in Wagner-worshipping Germany will these operas (Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger, the Ring cycle), be more reverently, painstakingly and expertly performed. But where the all-conquering Siegfried represents Der Fiihrer to every starry-eyed German backfisch, he will remain for U. S. operagoers a poetic figure of ancient and barbarous legend...
...moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol-minded, mop-headed Tamiris shook substantial thighs beneath a raspberry-sundae skirt. But this performance was actually a satire on the evils of decadent capitalism. Hanya Holm, disciple of Mary Wigman. led massive cohorts of healthy-looking Backfisch through what resembled a Swedish drill, called the result Trend...
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