Word: bavaria
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...American and a sports fan, how could you stand to miss the controversy when our brightest gold medal hopefuls get a 2.2 in synchonized swimming from the judge from the Upper-Bavaria/East Hanover Coalition of Independent and Completely Autonomous Spaces of Partitioned Territory...
...being probed for fraud in the disappearance of $13 billion in East German government funds. Prosecutors have been stymied because a ton of files were hastily shredded after Schalck-Golodkowski fled to the West in 1989 to escape arrest by East German reformers. From a lakeside villa in Bavaria, he now complains that he has been made a scapegoat for corruption by higher-ups in the Communist Party. "Every piece of dirt suddenly landed at my feet," he says...
...Jean Marais. Marais asked for a part in which he did not speak in Act One, shed tears of joy in Act Two and fell backwards down stairs in Act Three. But Cocteau also chose to use the play to explore the mysterious drowning of King Ludwig II of Bavaria...
...prepared to junk preconceptions with The Nasty Girl, Michael Verhoeven's exhilarating true-life adventure about a Nazi hunter in modern Bavaria...
...great pursuit of pleasure is Luxus, or luxury. It is commonly used these days to describe ashtrays, bathrooms, cars, furnishings, graphics, holidays -- just about anything used in everyday life that is well- designed or distinctive. Frequently it means something outrageously expensive. G&M, a mail-order house in Bavaria, caters specifically to such tastes, offering a catalog of 273 "carefully selected luxury gifts," with a total value of $26.5 million; among them are a Tabriz rug for $964,000 and a gold-plated record player for $75,000. Dieter Schiwietz, a Hamburg plastic surgeon, says women -- and men -- seem...