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Word: berlin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this night she is one of only half a dozen men and women in the disco on the 37th floor of the Hotel Stadt Berlin in Alexanderplatz -- the modernistic public square where most of the demonstrations in East Berlin for this new, democratic way of life have taken place. "People are exhausted," says the bartender. "It is too much to comprehend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices Of East Berlin | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...minutes earlier, on the Kurfurstendamm in West Berlin, I had encountered one of the few East Berliners who spoke enthusiastically to me of a single, reunified German state. He was a young man in his 20s, strolling with friends whose plastic shopping bags (embossed with Michael Jackson's picture) were filled with purchases. He wanted to move to the West (nearly 1,800 people a day are still moving) as soon as possible, he said. Why? He gestured to the store windows and the bright lights and said, "My eyes have been opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices Of East Berlin | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

There is a shabby, Old World familiarity about East Berlin that those who have lived there all their lives cling to -- at least for the moment. "We have a culture -- theater, opera, community -- the other side doesn't have," says the woman on the train, the bright lights of West Berlin now behind her. "Our stores are not empty." She is 34, a technician for the state television network. Until November, she was last in the West when she was six. This night she has returned to West Berlin to go to a concert with a friend, her fourth visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices Of East Berlin | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...West or are absorbed by it, there are economic problems for us," she continues. "We have no money." Her doubts tumble out. "The culture in the West -- it's nice, but the buildings don't go together. New buildings and old buildings. Jarring. West Berlin is too new . . ." And, of course, there are those lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices Of East Berlin | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...This all should have happened long ago. Now if we can make this into a democracy and get some of the money back, this could be one of the most pleasant places to live. Give us a few years. Nobody here gets sad watching Dallas on West Berlin TV and says, 'I wish I had a dress like that.' We don't want to be the Taiwan of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices Of East Berlin | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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