Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professionally ruined." In the censorship section of the Liverpool post office, J.C. Silber listens to the "majestic tolling" of church bells and is "glad to get away from it all." Understandably: Silber is a German spy who will retain his cover long enough to return home. In Berlin, Albert Einstein writes to his mother, "Only now do I begin to feel at ease. The defeat has worked wonders...
...distracted John Heard's Terminal Bar and a cocktail waitress (Teri Garr) who is woeful in her work and sleeps in a bed surrounded by rattraps. But that is only the beginning of Paul's After Hours adventures. He has yet to escape a Mohawk haircut at the Cafe Berlin and taking the rap for a series of burglaries perpetrated by a pair of thieves (Cheech and Chong) who have George Segal the sculptor mixed up with George Segal the actor. And this says nothing about the lynch mob led by a lady driving a Mister Softee truck (Catherine...
...improve relations. With Kohl's blessing, Franz Josef Strauss, the Bavarian conservative leader, planned to visit East Germany this week for the annual Leipzig trade fair and a meeting with East German Party Boss Erich Honecker. In addition, former Chancellor Willy Brandt intends to see Honecker in East Berlin later in the month. In that sense, though the spies may have been real, officials in both countries seemed at least partly willing to treat them as fiction...
...rotund secretary, her gray hair in a grandmotherly bob, apparently infiltrated the country by taking the name of a West Berlin woman who had moved to France. West German officials say that photographs taken at the time show conclusively that the spy and the real Luneburg are different people. When Luneburg underwent a security check last year, she conveniently forgot to include a picture of herself...
Ralf Traugott, 32, Lunenburg, Mass., automobile dealer. One of the two initial hijackers, who called himself "Castro," spoke German better than English. When he discovered that Traugott was born in Berlin, "he immediately called out my name and came over to me," recalls Traugott. "He put his 9-mm pistol against my forehead and put a hand grenade against my ear." In German, Castro asked, "Have you fear?" Traugott replied in German, "No, I have no fear." That answer, says Traugott, seemed to surprise Castro, so Traugott added, "O.K., a little bit when you have the gun and the grenade...