Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Checkpoint Charlie, the hideous maw of the Berlin Wall gapes briefly, affording a narrow passage into the divided German soul. On its Western side, a sea of sensuous color rushes down the Kurfurstendamm, past the ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, and spends itself violently but impotently in a scatological orgy of graffiti against the cold barrier. On the Eastern side, a pall hangs over the city, reflected in the rigorously functional, regimented gray apartment blocks that line the streets. Propelled by the engine of the postwar Wirtschaftswunder, the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany is a sporty blond racing...
Reginald's brother, Warrington, was one of three Yale graduates to create the Black Filmmakers' Foundation, a Black film distributor and support organization that has sponsored film series in Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam. Roach said that this organization helped him choose the films for the showings...
During the trial, Stern editors have testified to Heidemann's cloak-and- dagger methods: how he described clandestine meetings with former Nazi officers, payoffs to East German generals, and encounters on highways near Berlin where satchels of cash were tossed from one moving car to another in exchange for the books. Piled high behind Judge HansUlrich Schroeder are mounds of dog-eared folders stuffed with exhibits and testimony. But nowhere in them are the answers to two key questions: why Stern's normally tough- minded managers fell for the forgery without taking precautions to authenticate their find, and whether Heidemann...
When Carl Lewis received the Jesse Owens Award last week, for once no one strained to hear boos. The applause was pure. Ruth Owens, who could not accompany her husband to Berlin in 1936, told how especially touching it was for her "to see Carl out on the track there in Los Angeles. Jesse would have been proud." Lewis thanked her, and though he had not planned to say anything of the kind, declared for athletes generally, maybe for past Owens Winners Mary Decker and Edwin Moses particularly, "We are people too; we make mistakes. But we do our hardest...
Khrushchev figured that Kennedy would accept almost anything to avoid nuclear war. The lack of confidence the President displayed during both the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961 and the Berlin Wall crisis four months later further confirmed this view. At the end of 1961 I attended a meeting in the office of Khrushchev's personal assistants. Someone remarked that Khrushchev, to put it mildly, didn't think very highly of Kennedy. At that moment, the Premier entered the room and immediately began to lecture us about Kennedy's "wishy-washy" behavior, saying: "I know for certain that Kennedy...