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...cool, cloistered spaces, the casts of the great bronze doors at Hildesheim, are visited only by a few ghosts, like myself, from the glorious days of Charles Kuhn. "Es ist der Geist der sich den Korper baut" (spirit creates the body) can still be read on the facade, but today's spirit is one of greed. Werner Otto's name could hardly adorn an air-conditioning machine, no matter how expensive...
Fusilli, which means "spring" in Italian, is a type of noodle, or more specifically, "that little corkscrew noodle," as member Rana K. Der-showily '92 describes...
...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...
...that the "Dowmp, Da-Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp, Da-Dowmp" riff in "U Can't Touch This" was lifted from Rick James's "Super-freak," and gave credit where credit was due. But I could swear I've heard the first four notes of the riff in Falco's "Der Kommisar" and Paula Abdul's "Cold-Hearted Snake," too. Who's plagiarizing whom? How many possible notes and rhythms are there? Isn't copycatting inevitable...
Hans-Joachim Maaz, in a newly published book titled Der Gefuhlsstau (The Emotional Bottleneck), asserts that the chief obstacle to normalization of the east is psychological, not political or economic. "All of these people were formed by repressive relationships almost from the moment they were born," says Maaz, head of the department of psychotherapy at Deaconess Hospital in Halle, a dingy industrial city near Leipzig. "The authority of the father was replaced by the authority of teachers and then by the authority of the state." The result is a society of spiraling violence. "The lid is off," says Maaz...