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...Center -- to write songs and skits for vaudeville and radio performers. "He was an intellectual," Schuman recalls, "who'd go to the ends of the earth to hide that from anybody. Altogether brilliant." He moved on to Hollywood in 1937, fashioning bright novelties for comedy and dramatic actresses. Marlene Dietrich memorably mooed See What the - Boys in the Back Room Will Have, and Bette Davis croaked the wartime lament They're Either Too Young or Too Old. It was all 'prentice work for a man who would become one of Broadway's great sketch artists, whose songs could propel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Snappy Fella | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Officially, the ailing Honecker, 78, was moved for "humanitarian reasons" / -- treatment of circulatory and kidney problems. But the German government charged that the Soviets violated international law by removing an indicted man from legal jurisdiction. "We cannot and will not accept what has happened," said Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. "The German government expects him to be brought back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rescue from Retribution | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...unlikely, though, that they signal a return to Hollywood's golden age, when Garbo, Davis, Hepburn, Crawford, Dietrich could sell a film and give it class. That was a more genteel time, one that prized wit, heart and, on screen at least, a sexual equality of emotion and intelligence. Movies were about grownups; the toy-boy heroes stayed in comic books. Maybe audiences were more mature too. These days, Ghost and Pretty Woman are the big-hit exception, not the norm; moviegoers tend to measure heroism in terms of pectorals. Somewhere ! between Rambo and bimbo, between roles for children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...position to take similar action. Most of its bilateral aid was pledged in formal agreements that opened the way to unification last year and is tied to the withdrawal of Soviet troops by 1994. "We will remain faithful to these treaties," said Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, "because we want the Soviet Union to be faithful to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: The Bad Old Days Again | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...French, the European Community and the Algerians to act as interlocutors. Most notably, United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar announced he would go to Baghdad to see Saddam. "The window for peace has not widened, but neither has it been slammed shut," said German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Gasps on the Negotiation Trail | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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