Word: braun
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...able to repair and properly maintain only 10% of its 18,000 miles of highways each year, maintenance costs have risen 42% since 1977. Just to put a 1½-in. layer of new asphalt on 2,000 miles of highway costs $60 million. Minnesota Transportation Commissioner Richard P. Braun contends that at present spending levels, the state will not be able to rebuild its 12,000 miles of trunk highways until the year 2354, at least three centuries too late. One 17-mile stretch of Highway 15 between New Ulm and Winthrop so angered a group of Minnesota motorists...
...blips on an electrocardiogram. The detachment was not merely ironic. Two mismatched mates could come together and drift apart, as they did in Alt: Fear Eats the Soul; a hard-won life could blow up in its heroine's face, as it did in The Marriage of Maria Braun; a cunning mind could schuss down the Alps of dementia, as it did in Despair; and Fassbinder would watch, and show. He was a camera-one that hummed relentlessly until the end. More than a dozen Fassbinder films still await U.S. release...
...lucky enough to find a pair of screenwriters, Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich, who set this theme in '50s Germany, and retooled it with more dexterity than Fassbinder had shown in his own scripts. The result of this collaboration was a trilogy-Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982)-that blended movie melodramas with acerbic sociology, and revealed the curse behind the country's "economic miracle." They transformed the director from a cult commodity to a mainstream moneymaker...
DIED. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 36, prolific, iconoclastic Wunderkind of the new German cinema, who gained international recognition with his 1978 The Marriage of Maria Braun; of undetermined causes (though an overdose of drugs and alcohol is suspected); in Munich. An acerbic leftist and avowed homosexual, he turned out some 40 films in 13 years. "I read something in the paper, or somebody tells me a story, and I know that second: I must make a movie out of it," he once said. Inspired by Brecht and Hollywood soap operas, his often autobiographical scripts dealt with the theme of power...
Cast in the "American" style, but darkened by German guilt feelings about the country's recent past, the film becomes a kind of German Vietnam movie. But unlike Fasbinder (in The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lili Marleen), Schloendorff (in The Tin Drum), and Syberberg (in Our Hitler), director Wolfgang Petersen avoids discussing the complexities of the political, psychological, and cultural roots of the "German catastrophe" and presents, instead, a soldier's-eye view of the war. These boys do not see the battle as the culmination of Romanticism and Wagner or as the result of contradictions of the petty...