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This is the basic idea behind YellowArrow, a project with roots in performance art that started in New York this summer and has since spread across the country and throughout the world. From Berlin to California, people are enlivening cities with these bright yellow stickers and with the forum for communication they provide. Anyone can get involved by going to the website or by simply text-messaging the code whenever they spot yellow arrow. It’s been called a game, a form of graffiti, and the largest performance art piece ever attempted. More than just a scattering...
...think I'll try and make her") from the Animal Crackers song Captain Spaulding, cut long after the film's release, is still missing. But why pick nits when the movies deserve such high Marx? With dialogue crafted by George Kaufman and S.J. Perelman and snappy tunes by Irving Berlin and the Kalmar-Ruby team, the films have a racy pulse to offset their primitive technique. Savor Groucho's balletic brashness and his byplay with that sublime foil Margaret Dumont. Find the source of many an immortal jape: "Go, and never darken my towels again"; "Well, who are you gonna...
...stared on, he probably did not understand what was taking place. The dream of Europe that the men in front of him were attempting to stage was not his dream, nor that of those other power-hungry leaders who once aimed to unite the continent from Paris or Berlin. It was something altogether different. And as much as the European process of integration may at times seem farcical, there is a definite sense, at least on the Continent, that the show will...
...legislating on competitiveness, on environmental protection, on public-service rules and the whole question of social protection for workers." Yet the Socialists might find it far more difficult to stay united on bread-and-butter economic issues than on civil rights for homosexuals. The governing Social Democrats in Berlin, for example, are currently pushing through reforms that look a lot like the ones the opposition French Socialists are fighting tooth and nail in Paris. "Political groups will increasingly act as real European parties," says Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, a researcher at Belgium's Royal Institute for International Relations...
...comes to interpreting the E.U.'s stability and growth pact, there are no limits to French and German creativity. With both countries at risk of breaching the pact's rules - demanding euro zone countries' budget deficits remain below 3% of GDP - for the fourth straight year, Paris and Berlin last week called for change. French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder labeled the European Commission's reform proposals - taking greater account of a country's economic situation - as "not sufficient." Instead, the duo called for states to be able to exclude from budget deficit calculations some...