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...Mozambican immigrant was thrown out of a trolley car to his death in Dresden; a Vietnamese was stabbed nearly to death in Leipzig; some Soviet children who survived the Chernobyl nuclear accident and were convalescing in a special children's home in Zittau, 150 miles south of Berlin, were assailed by a gang of stone-throwing drunks who shouted, "Jews...
...right's ability to make noise far exceeds its power to win votes. Unification has actually undercut the electoral appeal of right-wing parties. The biggest, Die Republikaner, won 7.5% of the vote in West Berlin in 1989 but polled only 2.1% in the nationwide Bundestag elections in 1990. Its adherents have no seats in parliament or in any state legislatures. That could change if the rightists can find a charismatic leader; so far, it has none...
...KNOW that the United States is in pretty bad shape, even compared to the rest of the world. The earth has crumbled a little during the beginning of the 1990s. The Berlin Wall isn't even rubble anymore. The Soviet Union is gone. Donald Trump can't meet his mortgage payments. All of these monumental developments seem to have made their mark on the 1992 Olympic Games...
...SCHOENBERG: GUERRELIEDER. Riccardo Chailly conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony (London/Decca, 2 CDs). The high-water mark of late -- really late -- romanticism, Gurrelieder will come as a revelation to those who equate Schoenberg with the chilly 12-tone system. The fiery song cycle, really a music drama about doomed love and transcendence, gets a voluptuous Wagnerian reading from Chailly...
...SCHOENBERG: GUERRELIEDER. Riccardo Chailly conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony (London/Decca, 2 CDs). The high-water mark of late -- really late -- romanticism, Gurrelieder will come as a revelation to those who equate Schoenberg with the chilly 12-tone system. The fiery song cycle, really a music drama about doomed love and transcendence, gets a voluptuous Wagnerian reading from Chailly...