Word: berliner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bewildering sight: after a year of slugging each other over Iraq, here come Europe's Big Three leaders, bloodied, bandaged, limping - and leaning on each other for support. Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder meet this week in Berlin, but despite the obligatory grins and displays of solidarity, the Three Amigos they are not. Not long ago Blair was warning publicly that Chirac was trying to drag Europe down a dead end of reflexive opposition to the U.S. in pursuit of a moldy Gaullist dream of French glory - and complaining privately that Chirac...
...economic woes - underfunded state pensions, low productivity, slow growth, high unemployment - this week's summit will intrude upon sensitive territory for the smaller states. The Gang of Three will endorse a joint paper on these topics they can present to other E.U. leaders in March. One diplomat in Berlin says Schröder particularly wants his domestic reform package to get a Blair seal of approval this week, to help him sell it at home. But is another report good for anything more than p.r.? "On economic reform, France and Germany are laggards, not the avant garde," says Grant. Their...
...Some younger artists find Schnabel less than experimental, even old hat. "Schnabel has no influence on younger artists like myself," says Reynold Reynolds, 37, a New York City multimedia artist currently at the American Academy in Berlin. "He's holding on to a tradition that's just not all that relevant. I would say it's like John Grisham. Extremely popular, but is John Grisham influencing serious young authors? I don't think...
...disc jockey and B-movie actor made late-night TV both a habit and an event. He was a hot wire in a cool medium. Many a coffee-break chat would begin with "Did you see what Paar did last night?" He visited Cuba to talk to Castro, and Berlin when the Wall went up; he drew fresh notions from politicians and film idols when such figures were not ubiquitous TV presences. More often, Paar made news by being himself-a softy quick to anger, quick to cry-and by keeping his audience guessing what mood Jack would...
...common," says MTV/VH1 entertainment president Brian Graden, "which is our relation to pop culture." Now VH1 has packed its schedule with rememberfests like 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons and the new Bands Reunited, a reality show that tracks down, Blues Brothers--style, the members of '80s bands like Berlin and Extreme for reunion concerts. Coming up are the series Surviving Nugent, a reality show built around '70s rocker Ted Nugent, and a "postmodern" remake of The Partridge Family that will begin as a reality show in which viewers will help cast the sitcom...