Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...16th-Century German master, was a Göring favorite, and he had some beauties-about 50 in all. He had a lovely Venus by Cranach, a Madonna with Child and John the Baptist, and a haunting portrait of Prince Moritz of Saxony as a boy. "It is a curious thing," Hofer added, "but that portrait has great similarity to little Edda, Göring's daughter...
...vastness of the Allied victory and Germany's tremendous defeat, one curious fact was likely to be overlooked. Never before in history have western Europe and eastern Europe faced each other except across a buffer of German or Austrian power. For some 500 years most of the history of Europe has been a series of variations, mostly tragic, on this geographic and political fact. Victory in Europe had finally destroyed this historic pattern. Henceforth western Europe and eastern Europe must live face to face...
...worrying?" asked the grimy little private hiding in an Italian shell hole. "I'm not the worrying type. I'm just curious. I just want to know when the hell I'm getting out of this hole...
...tightly over bones and cavities and all their members hung down loosely, as they lie on men who throw themselves down exhausted to the ground. Some men who were not dead sat idly on a bench nearby. A Frenchman who had drifted up just smiled and smiled in that curious, almost hysterical way that you sometimes smile at overwhelming horror...
...picture has provocative trimmings, too: the locked front door which oddly keeps opening in the dead of night; the newspaper clipping about the murder in the little girl's scrapbook; the little boy's curious addiction to a raucous recording of There'll Be Some Changes Made; his disquietingly systematic habit of hanging a toy elephant in his nursery window and lying awake watching it; his inexplicably intense hatred of his new governess. As sophisticated Producer John Houseman and his players knock these and other ingredients against each other, they give off an occasional resonance that makes...