Word: berliner
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...rock singer; instead of being an asset, this just compounds their lack of character. Their songs tend to repeat the same nondescript lyrics as many times as possible, like “Somebody / Somebody / Somebody’s gonna hurt somebody” on “Berlin.” Listening to “Baby 81” becomes a search for something different, and the band does oblige with some interesting moments as the album moves on. The acoustic guitar introduction to “Weapon of Choice,” the first single, is energetic...
...good court jesters, Kesminas tells salient truths while poking fun-whether at art's over-reliance on theory in Paranoid (courtesy Black Sabbath), at the self-indulgence of Tracey Emin (to the tune of the Police's Roxanne) or at the preciousness of the German art scene (Children of Berlin, by way of Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing.) Says Kesminas, "The art world is really so small when it comes down...
...strategic missile forces, had said Monday such targeting would be an option if those two nations agree to a U.S. proposal to base 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic. "I think that was an extremely unfortunate comment," Rice said during a stop in Berlin. Unfortunate, perhaps, but hardly isolated. On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin announced he would suspend his nation1s compliance with a post-Cold War treaty limiting conventional arms in Europe, due in large part to the oozing eastward of the U.S. missile shield...
...Viewed in a limited context-as a short-term deterrent to terrorism or as a means of containing a population, for example-walls can achieve their objectives. The slab surrounding the West Bank has dramatically reduced the number of suicide bombings inside Israel. The Berlin Wall successfully divided a city for decades. But Danny Seidemann, an Israeli lawyer and legal counsel to Ir Amim, an organization advocating for a Jerusalem that is shared by Israelis and Palestinians, says walls are more than just concrete and barbed wire. They are corrosive symbols of social and economic rifts and iniquities, divisions that...
...those movies out—‘Red Dawn,’ ‘Red Hampster,’ ‘Red German.’ Kids hated all things Russian. At my Hebrew School in Queens, I pretty ironically introduced myself as being from Berlin.” Like Shteyngart, Misha wishes for detachment from Russia, so when his visa to return to America is denied because of his father’s illegal activities, he travels to Absurdistan, a place Shteyngart describes as “an oil-rich former Soviet republic on the shores...