Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skilled trade, even as an apprentice. West German authorities have established special schools offering remedial courses, but few of the foreign youngsters attend; to do so invites ridicule from their peers. Somewhat more popular have been the few day nurseries, play centers and youth clubs opened by the Berlin government...
...fall and seems prepared to ride out a lackluster winter. He insists that he can break even if only 189 of the 345 seats on each of his flights are filled. Laker, who started as a civilian pilot and made his first coup in 1948 supplying planes to the Berlin airlift, runs a strict, no-frills operation on the ground as well as in the air. Headquarters of the line-which up to now has mostly operated charter flights-are stuffed into four floors of a Gatwick hangar, and there are no elevators. The line has just four directors, including...
...film works up some steam only when it is recounting the central anecdote of the original story, a scary 1937 train ride in which Hellman (Fonda) smuggles $50,000 to Julia (Redgrave) and her antifascist comrades in Berlin. Director Zinnemann (High Noon) brings a Graham Greenesque sense of intrigue to this adventure, and he sets up a powerful climactic scene. When Hellman finally arrives in a smoky Berlin cafe to deliver the loot, her terse, hurried conversation with Julia sums up everything the film has been trying to say about friendship, political commitment and growing up. Simultaneously the two star...
Largely ignored by critics outside Europe, the most important cluster of modern art exhibitions the world has seen this year is running (until Oct 16) in Berlin. "Trends of the Twenties," set up by the Council of Europe, contains four exhibitions: some 3,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, models' posters, documents and every imaginable sort of artifact, from a suprematist teacup by the pioneer Russian abstractionist Kasimir Malevich to a Bauhaus gramophone. The exhibition catalogue is as thick as a brick; one needs persistence, but is richly rewarded. For "Trends of the Twenties" offers a vast and unique panorama...
...most comprehensive of them, from constructivism to concrete art, is housed in Berlin's New National Gallery -the austere and nearly functionless square of glass and black steel that was Mies van der Rohe's chief legacy to Germany. This Prussian pantheon, overlooking the bombed-out paddocks where Hitler's chancellery once stood, is as perfectly suited to a constructivist show as St. Peter's is to Bernini's papal tombs; box and contents are one. The idealism, the formal absolutism and the faith in a new social order, coupled with the abstracted indifference...