Word: derlying
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...playing Neptune in Mozart's Idomeneo, he riveted the attention with not only vocal power, but musicality in a flashy part that's too often just belted out. Lemalu is on the cusp of stardom. His first album last year, a rich collection of favorite songs like Schubert's Der Wanderer and Finzi's Rollicum-Rorum, won him the Gramophone magazine award for best newcomer. Although EMI are cagey about the figures, it sold tens of thousands - extremely good for an unknown singer - persuading the label to sign him to a five-year contract. His triumph in New Zealand music...
...East German art," says M?rz, as he slices a Wiener schnitzel in the museum restaurant. "Every painting, every object that is presented here, has to stand on its own within the uncompromising walls of this exhibition hall." That's a demanding standard, since the gallery, Mies van der Rohe's glass pavilion, is a monument to Western Modernism, standing guard across from Potsdamer Platz. At the time of its construction, it stood near the Wall. Another irony is that both März and Blume worked as curators in the National Gallery in East Germany...
...Died. Nicolas Freeling, 76, British crime writer whose Dutch detective character Piet Van der Valk and French sleuth Henri Castang propelled dozens of popular novels; in eastern France. Freeling wrote nearly 40 books and was credited with elevating the crime genre by creating probing examinations of complex personalities...
...Italy's Deputy Industry Minister for Tourism - wrote a newspaper article calling German tourists "stereotyped blonds with hypernationalist pride ... who noisily invade our beaches." He added that "this Schulz probably grew up ... drinking gigantic amounts of beer and gorging himself on fried potatoes." Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who had been planning to spend a couple of weeks at an Italian friend's home in Pesaro, on the Adriatic coast, was goaded into action by the powerful German tabloid Bild, which suggested that Stefani had "spaghetti for brains" and challenged Schröder to "Nix Bella Italia." Playing...
...film clips from Berlin's annual hedonistic Love Parade and the slyly sexy slogan there's so much we can do together. With time, maybe it will work. But right now, there's so much the Germans would rather do in Italy. Along the Rimini coast near Schröder's aborted destination, it's Stefani rather than any German who is persona non grata. Maurizio Melucci, the head of tourism for the city of Rimini, was one of the first to call for the junior minister's resignation. People wondered why the patriot manqué drives an Audi rather...