Word: berlin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Berlin...
...Attie's first public work, The Writing on the Wall, projected pre-war photographs of the Jewish community onto the facades of houses in Berlin's eastern Scheunenviertel. The effect of seeing Jewish lives lost to the Holocaust superimposed upon the crumbling buildings that had once been their homes was deeply disorienting; the images were projected for several evenings and served as a testimony in light to passers-by. The ICA has lightbox photographs of the projections on display as documents of the 1992 event...
...looks unlikely to stop Russia's Chechnya campaign - particularly since it's not backed up by any credible threat. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned Friday that the U.S. was "reviewing" loans to Russia as she joined G7 foreign ministers and her Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, in Berlin for talks on the crisis. But President Clinton last week emphasized Washington's belief that sanctions are an inappropriate response to the Chechnya situation, and Moscow isn't likely to lose any sleep over the latest warnings. Having reportedly lost an armored column in a botched assault on Grozny Wednesday...
...Tyrell is no exception. Having contributed to the Father of the Bride soundtracks, Tyrell has decided to try his hand at a full length project, A New Standard, composed entirely of jazz standards (doubling, naturally, on producing duties). The execution is something fairly uneven. While works penned by Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern can never be truly faulted, Tyrell doesn't possess the vocal versatility to make them twinkle with true allure. "Give Me the Simple Life" caters to his scratchy vocals, but "On The Sunny Side of the Street," with its octave-plus range, proves to be a sufficient...
...Essentials promise "an evening of manicured sonics and tell-tale coiffure in the tradition of club-circuit Berlin circa 1980," with themes of repetition, exaggeration and anachronism in sublimated soul music. The band will be selling their Christmas 7" at the show and a live CD and LP, out on English Muffin/Swill Records, is forthcoming...