Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what this Camp David was. I was afraid this was ... the sort of place where people who were mistrusted could be kept in quarantine. Finally we were informed that Camp David was what we would call a dacha." His amiable talks with Ike on disarmament and the future of Berlin produced what was known as "the spirit of Camp David...
...impact of the document, the Communists stepped up their accusations that the Federal Republic had been guilty of spying on the East. Immediately after the manifesto's publication, the East German news agency A.D.N. reported that Günter Weinhold, 40, a senior official in the West Berlin government finance department, had been arrested in East Germany for espionage. Last week courts in East Berlin meted out sentences of seven to twelve years to three West Germans charged with spying. Meanwhile, Bonn believes, the East Germans are stepping up their intelligence activities in the Federal Republic. A Bonn parliamentary...
...form of detente. East Germany's stake in good relations involves $1.2 billion in loans from Bonn and exports to West Germany that totalled $939 million in the first half of last year. For West Germany, Ostpolitik has meant preserving the security of geographically isolated West Berlin. It has also allowed an average of 6.9 million West Germans to visit relatives in the East each year, and 45,000 East Germans to emigrate to the West since 1972. "Our ties to the other part of Germany are not with out burdens, and the present new strains are a setback...
This is not the sort of creativity one expects to find preoccupying an austere and sober artist like Ingmar Bergman. Yet it must be said that his liveliest attentions in The Serpent's Egg are lavished on the marvelous Berlin city block, circa 1923, that Producer Dino De Laurentiis provided him for this picture. The thing comes complete with a real working streetcar, which the director sets to clanging at every possible opportunity. When he is not busy with that, he is filling his street with crowds in all kinds of moods, showing it at all times...
...comes out more picturesque than terrifying. Bergman, too, shows the developing monster through the eyes of an innocent, though this one lacks the lively intelligence of the young man in Cabaret. Bergman calls his hero Abel (David Carradine). He is an American circus performer of Jewish descent, stranded in Berlin because his brother and partner has hurt his arm and they cannot continue their trapeze act. The picture opens with Abel discovering the brother's suicide. This places him under police suspicion because a number of people he has known have died similarly violent and mysterious deaths. While...