Word: dusseldorfers
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Paik had no intention of speeding this process along when he finally came to the U.S. in 1964. He merely wanted to visit Cage and his cronies. His first impression of New York City was far from favorable: "It was as dirty as Paris and as ugly as Dusseldorf." Yet Paik found himself extending his stay: "I keep saying, 'Half more year, half more year...
...sense of unease that was so evident throughout the day--that indeed had been building for two weeks--had been heightened by four bomb blasts in Dusseldorf and Cologne. On Saturday a march in Bonn sponsored by the leftist Green political party attracted 7,000 political radicals, peace activists and leather-jacketed punkers. They carried banners with anti-NATO and pro- Communist slogans. Police charged one group of marchers burning an American flag in Munsterplatz, a cobblestoned pedestrian mall in the city center, and used tear gas to break up some of the crowd. In the ensuing melee, eleven officers...
...scene a few minutes later, the van exploded, killing two of the fire fighters. The blast also injured twelve passersby. Belgian Justice Minister Jean Gol called the incident part of a concerted, Continent-wide terrorist campaign. Four other bombs also went off last week in Cologne and Dusseldorf, West Germany, intended to protest the economic summit of the major industrialized nations...
...Kitaj show (which will go to his native Cleveland in December, and to Dusseldorf in February 1982) begins, as it were, on Weimar modernism, on the strains, dislocations and terrible urgencies of a time that Kitaj, 48, is too young to have experienced directly-Europe in the '20s and '30s. Gangsters and politicians, clowns and whores, drifting intellectuals and their pale cafe groupies, the doomed, the uprooted, the crushed, the demented-such is the cast of characters. They are imagined and mixed by a mind saturated not only in literature but in fantasies about reading, straying and witnessing...
...some hotel owners are turning to computerized electronic locks to foil burglars. The most popular system is made by Uniqey International of Santa Ana, Calif., and is used in 20 European and American luxury hotels from the Helmsley Palace in New York City to the Hilton International in Dusseldorf, West Germany. Instead of being given a normal key that can be easily copied, guests receive a thin paper card containing a metal foil strip with a precise pattern of holes punched in it by a computer. When someone inserts the card into a small box on his room door...