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...also been an outspoken critic of Nigerian despots since the 1960s and mediated between indigenous people and oil companies in the Niger Delta. His latest work, a memoir, is titled You Must Set Forth at Dawn. Last week, he met Time's Andrew Purvis and Regine Wosnitza in Berlin. Why did you decide to write a new memoir and what have you learned from it? That is a good question. Certainly I did not want to write this memoir in the way it turned out. But that is the problem with writers. I learned never to write your biography beyond...
Born in Moscow and raised in Berlin, Leo Steinberg has been a leader in the art world as an artist, collector, critic, and professor of art history. His critiques of contemporary art have earned him recognition among fellow art historians, though he is an authority on a wide span of history...
Josef von Sternberg was a famous Hollywood auteur in 1930 and Dietrich a minor Berlin actress when he cast her as Lola, the crass chanteuse of The Blue Angel. Just like that, a star was born: an anti-Garbo who viewed life and love as a series of awful amusements. In their seven films together--of which a terrific trio (Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Devil Is a Woman) are included here--Sternberg swathed Dietrich's wry sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract...
...Berlin The people came. In the thronged square, Social Democratic leader Ernst Spars climbed on to a platform. He pointed to the overcast skies. "Up there," cried Spars, "the American people are showing their faith in the cause of our Berlin brothers. Yet we?their fellow countrymen?have done nothing. Now we must act! There is not much food for us here in Melsungen, but let us share with those brave Berliners what little we have!" July...
...born, in the '60s, the living standard in Yugoslavia was about the same as in Greece and Spain, and considerably higher than in Portugal. Unlike our East European neighbors, we could sample the Western lifestyle and were free to travel. With a Yugoslav passport, one could pass through the Berlin Wall as if it wasn't there, and we were equally welcome in Israel and Egypt. When communism collapsed, Yugoslavia was expected to be the first East European country to join the European Community. But instead of E.U. membership we got Slobodan Milosevic, who ensnared many of my Serbian compatriots...