Word: berliner
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...issues. They say the best way to strengthen moderate Palestinian leaders is for the U.S. to be clear about what the Palestinians will get if they make peace. Last June, an official involved tells TIME, Qurei and other top officials met quietly with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in Berlin to push for progress toward Palestinian statehood. "They said, 'Why can't we jump to final status talks and start negotiating borders?'" says the official. Rice, according to the official, replied, "We're sitting in Germany. Its borders were settled in 1991, but by then it was a successful, democratic...
...Beethoven." Over the past few years, with his trio mates, Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington (no relation) on drums, Charlap has built on that blueprint in a succession of beguiling and acclaimed CDs on the Blue Note label. Written in the Stars (2000) samples Porter, Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Harold Arlen, among others. Stardust (2003), on which the trio is augmented by such guests as Tony Bennett and guitarist Jim Hall, is all Hoagy Carmichael. The best so far, this year's Somewhere, focuses on the theater songs of Leonard Bernstein...
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...
Behind the savvy design and implementation of the YellowArrow project lies a trio of Columbia grads and their mastermind leader. Christopher Allen, Brian House and Jesse Shapins were good friends during college. Shapins took his degree in urban studies and went to Berlin to start an arts group focused on seeing cities in a new, more perceptive way. House, with a background in computer science and interactive art projects, headed to Sweden for an intermedia graduate program, while Allen set off for Brooklyn to work with Michael Counts and the arts institution called Gale Gates...
...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...