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...must not simply raid the Busch-Reisinger Museum's current exhibition, A Laboratory of Modernity: Image and Society in the Weimar Republic for traces of blonde-beast barbarism. It would be philistine. After all, the Weimar republic was something of a laboratory of modernity--it represents a self-conscious break with the culture that nurtured Otto von Bismarck and his moustached ilk. In 1926, in fact, the Reichstag voted for a censorship program that would suppress Schmutz and the alien, commercial cosmopolitanism that are so prevalent in Weimar visual culture...
...dangerous predator roaming the wilderness and preying on rivals at will," says law professor Bill Kovacic of George Washington University. "Now they have to tell the judge what kind of cage to confine it in." But even without Justice's input, several ideas have emerged about how the beast could be tamed...
WASHINGTON: It's alive! The government's antitrust case against Microsoft lumbers on Wednesday, despite the stake driven into its heart by the $4.2 billion deal between Netscape, America Online and Sun Microsystems. Redmond's legal team tried its best to kill the beast Tuesday, arguing that the formation of what was effectively a two-party system in the software industry made government regulation irrelevant. But the beast refused to die. "If I'm counting it right, [that's] the sixth time during the trial that Microsoft has pronounced the government's case dead," said chief Justice Department attorney David...
...then, can this company claim that it doesn't derive benefits from its monopoly position? After all, there's one thing the AOL deal hasn't changed: 89 percent of those Netscape browsers are going to be viewed on a Microsoft-operated machine. Windows, too, is a beast that will...
DIED. JEAN MARAIS, 84, swashbuckling French screen idol of the '40s and '50s; in Cannes, France. Marais got his break as the beast in the 1946 film Beauty and the Beast, co-directed by his longtime lover, the artist Jean Cocteau. A wildly popular pinup for women and men alike, the actor starred in 70 movies...