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...eight we replaced," explained Richard Gurin, the company's president. "We decided, at least for now, they are both right." Declared Robert Pagani, president of CRAYON (the Committee to Reestablish All Your Old Norms): "This is a great moral victory." And you thought the fall of the Berlin Wall was a milestone in history...
...reading was not the first tribute to O'Brien that Nash has conducted. Last year he staged a one-man show based on O'Brien's works called, "The Hair of the Dogma." The show ran last August at the Loeb Experimental Theatre and Nash performed it in Berlin and Dublin this summer...
...vagaries of postunification law are not the only factors working in favor of Wolf, who told the magazine Der Spiegel that he only wants to live quietly in his Berlin home and write a children's book. He has extensive knowledge that Bonn's intelligence officials would like to tap. There are estimates that as many as 400 former spies from his old organization remain under cover in Germany and may be working for the KGB or other intelligence agencies. Wolf has sworn in recent interviews -- and he is already adept in Western ways, reportedly charging tens of thousands...
...zeitgeist in a box, albeit a box the size of a museum? Led by Jean Clair, the director of the Musee Picasso in Paris, six curators have set out to raise and question the ghosts of the queen cities of Modernism: Paris, Berlin and New York -- with detours to London, Weimar (for the Bauhaus), Cologne (for Dada) and Moscow (for Constructivism) -- in the decade between the end of World War I and the arrival of the 1929 Depression...
...into whoredom and men into anonymity. German artists like George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch and the remarkable and still underknown Hannah Hoch imagined it as a grotesque theater, full of libido and irony -- the stage of a morality play, updated to reflect the postwar sense of despair. From Grosz in Berlin to Frans Masereel in Antwerp, an enormous iconography of city life -- its edginess, speed, compression, perversion, fixation on style -- developed in the '20s. The idea that the city is constructed of signs, of media and information overload as much as of concrete and steel, was the essence of vision...