Word: braun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...block building in Van Nuys, Calif., infants get put through exercise routines: 16-month-olds pretend to look like pretzels, swing from rings and run a kiddie obstacle course of bars and tunnels that looks like a miniature golf course, while older children learn what Junior Gym Founder Judy Braun calls "directionality" and have "rhythmic experiences." Eight lessons cost $55. The gym, begun in 1973, had revenues last year of $250,000 and profits before taxes of $100,000, a pulse-quickening return of 40%. Thirty-five million pairs of designer jeans, at prices ranging from $42.50 to $110, will...
This is the movie version, and it cleaves as tenaciously to the facts as any star biopic from Hollywood's heady days. Fassbinder built his reputation with films (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Marriage of Maria Braun) that played high-voltage melodrama as deadpan farce; here he has turned Lale's tale into what Hanna Schygulla, who impersonates her in the film, calls "a Nazi fairy tale." As the new star gorges on her celebrity, making love to her mirror image in a palatial white bedroom, her countrymen starve...
...Duarte. At 17 she was an ambitious ingenue who moved up by sleeping around; at 27 she was the First Lady of Argentina, the power behind Juan Perón; at 33 she was dead of cancer. She was one smart cookie, laced with strychnine-Eva Brains and Evita Braun. As a wily teenager, she ran through lovers like a bull on the pampas; as Senora Perón, she stalked the corridas of power, sniffing for the blood of old enemies. Young Eva told a colleague she wanted to play the great ladies of history: Joan of Arc, Queen...
...finally got Alan Shepard into the stratosphere and down again. Kennedy flew to Cape Canaveral, Fla., to greet John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth. The week he was killed, J.F.K. stood beneath the first stage of the giant Saturn 1 rocket. While Wernher von Braun talked quietly into his ear of the day the monster would head toward the moon, Kennedy thrust his hands in his coat pockets, rocked back on his heels, and for a fleeting second or two in his imagination joined those voyagers far beyond earth. His eyes shone at the thought of what...
...Patricia Braun...