Word: berliner
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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...
Thousands of soccer fans arriving this month for World Cup matches in Berlin may find the newly opened Central Station as thrilling as any penalty shoot-out. The $905 million depot consists of a soaring, 321-m-long, 9,000-glass-pane hall covering tracks[an error occurred while processing this directive] running east to west, a 46-m-high barrel-vaulted steel-and-glass hall and two rectangular office buildings running parallel to the underground north-south lines, plus a shopping galleria. It's on the site of the city's Lehrter Stadtbahnhof, inaugurated in 1871, the year...
...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...
...rash of attacks by far-right groups is raising fears that some of the estimated 10,000 neo-Nazis who live in Germany will use the event to broadcast their message of hatred and intolerance to a global audience. In the same week that neo-Nazis in East Berlin are suspected of attacking a member of Parliament who is of Kurdish origin - and who remains hospitalized after suffering a concussion - German police released a national report documenting a sharp increase in the number of crimes committed by far-right groups over the past year. And this comes after a dire...