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...chin epidemic−was a bulgy badge of the postwar economic miracle, nutritionists warn direly that 78% of all citizens are still overweight and some 70,000 a year die prematurely of diabetes, coronaries, and other ailments accentuated by overeating. Three slenderizing volumes by diet expert Ulrich Klever of Bavaria−Calorie Compass, Protein-Plus Diet and Everything That Makes You Slim−have sold nearly 500,000 copies, while sales of the Brigitte Diet Club book have reached 750,000 copies in four years...
...democracy, but in fact Greek politics has rarely reflected Attica's ancient heritage. Scarcely had Greece won its independence from the Turks in the 1820s when the infant republic ended in a presidential assassination. The great powers protecting the new nation promptly imposed an absolutist King from Bavaria. Ever since, Greece's political history has seesawed between short periods of volatile republicanism and longer ones of oppressive authoritarianism...
Lels Montee. Andrew Sarris's numero uno, and a lot of other people's 100. About the famous dancer/mistress who had affairs with people like Ludwig of Bavaria and that composer who travelled around in a wagon--Liazt. I think, or maybe Griag. Max Ophuls's last film, made in 1955 in color with Martina Carol. Anton Walbrook and Peter Ustinov. Part of Harvard-Epworth's Ophule festival. The Shadow Catcher, at the Welles, sounds real interesting. About Edward S. Curtis and the Native Americans he photographed and filmed at the beginning of this century. With narration by Donald Sutherland...
...make theatrical history," announced Eva. The original script has been changed. The two old Brooklyn ladies who mercy-kill homeless tramps have been given a recent European ancestry to explain why Eva and Zsa Zsa romp round like two cocottes from the court of mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Said Producer David Lonn, wiping a tear from his eye: "They still don't realize how funny they are together...
...German people that they have to elect me Chancellor." Experts agree that conditions will have to get considerably worse if Strauss is to have a real chance of winning the top job. Despite the growing popularity of what he says, he personally remains intensely disliked and feared outside Bavaria as ein gefährlicher Mann (a dangerous man). That may be a reaction not only to his ultraconservatism but also to the authoritarianism he demonstrated in his Cabinet positions. Yet in person, Strauss is a witty intellectual who can readily toss off Latin and Greek epigrams-in an incongruously thick...