Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Almost from the moment he left art school he assumed center stage in the Viennese avant-garde, enacting its fixations on love and death, abandonment and deviancy. Painting apart, he worked hard to earn his nickname "der Tolle" (the crazy man). George Grosz remembered him at a ball in Berlin, gnawing on the fresh and bloody bone of an ox. He sometimes hid among the waxworks of criminals in the chamber of horrors of the Berlin Panoptikum, and sprang out with a howl to frighten the visitors. These early "happenings" (artist as cannibal, artist as criminal) were subtexts...
...postwar years, during which Kokoschka cast himself as a maestro appointed to pull the great European figurative tradition out of the grip of abstraction, his art declined in vitality. One soon wearies, for instance, of the view-fromthe-boardroom cityscapes of Berlin, London and New York that he turned out in some profusion for Axel Springer and other bigwigs of the postwar boom years. But to say that his talent collapsed like Chagall's is quite untrue. Chagall painted nothing but cloying ethnic kitsch for the last 30 years of his life. But in some of Kokoschka's last paintings...
Gorbachev has attended only one other East bloc party congress this year, in East Berlin, and his presence in Warsaw clearly demonstrated Moscow's satisfaction with Jaruzelski's progress since he became First Secretary in 1981. The Soviet leader expansively praised Jaruzelski and lauded Warsaw's success in "repulsing the onslaught of the enemies of socialism...
...case of the bombing of the disco in Berlin, the counter-evidence is particularly strong: e.g. the unlikelihood of Qaddafi ordering a terrorist act against a nightclub frequented by Muslims and black U.S. GIs, Libya's explicit denial of compliance in the action and condemnation of it, and the fact that a German neo-Nazi organization claimed responsibility shortly afterwards...
Coming from what she called "the moreprogrammed suburbs," Anne D. Berlin said that whenshe entered Harvard she was "incredibly hyper...