Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hosannas. Until his arrival the Chicago, heavy with German tradition, was known as a great orchestra that only rarely gave a great performance. Now it is an ensemble that Solti can (as he did two seasons ago) take into such musical bastions as Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg, and win standing ovations from the public and hosannas from the stuffiest critics. The money for that European tour was raised largely by Symphony Board Chairman Louis Sudler, as part of a campaign to publicize the board's selection of Solti. That choice was made, says Sudler, a Chicago realtor...
Cartooning and caricature have always been arts of the great cities. Daumier had his Paris, George Grosz the Berlin of the twenties, and Steinberg is best known through the New Yorker. Steinberg's New York, however, is more a city of the mind than anything else, a set of prejudices and routines which shape the life of the whole culture...
...parables as well as of imaginative characters. His line has a verve and sophistication which he has been learning from the best in "conventional" art for over thirty years. (The Inspector is his sixth book since 1945.) He has clearly learned a lot from Grosz's fat generals and Berlin prostitutes, from Paul Klee's wandering tactile line, and perhaps less noticeably, from the sketches of Picasso. The Inspector includes a number of collage drawings that resemble parodies of Cubist still lives -- tables overflowing with anonymous, fragmented objects -- that demonstrate this source particularly well...
...multiple controversies exploded in Washington, the city turned jittery. Declared a high Administration official about the staff in the White House: "It's like the last days in a Berlin bunker in 1945. They're all sitting there waiting for the bombs to drop...
...sadomasochists. Arabella is what its operator, Kurt Kohls of Ulm, likes to call an "Eros center" and what almost everyone else would call a brothel. Kohls already runs four such centers in West Germany and Austria, and hopes to open other Arabellas in Luxembourg, Holland, Hungary, Yugoslavia and East Berlin...