Word: edvard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...claims his resistance is in defense of ideals like freedom and democracy, but his treaty demands - including one that relates to a long buried dispute that goes back to World War II - are bewildering, say E.U. officials. While in exile between 1940 and 1945, the Czechoslovak government led by Edvard Bene? ordered that all German speakers in the Sudentland region of Czechoslovakia should be deported and their property seized. Klaus now claims that the E.U. Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is incorporated in the Lisbon Treaty, might become the basis for property restitution lawsuits by descendants of those German-speakers...
...although the brass represented the victorious Dutch, the Spanish couldn’t have been quite that overwhelmed in the actual battle. This inflexible penchant for volume was a distraction in all three program selections.Ultimately, these worries were redeemed by the arrival of Bartosik, who found new life in Edvard Grieg’s popular “Piano Concerto in A minor.” Bartosik’s delicate touch on the piano could only be described as poetry in motion. At times, Bartosik’s sublime piano solos were sullied by out-of-tune woodwind entrances...
RECOVERED. The Scream (pictured) and Madonna, two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch stolen from Oslo's Munch Museum in August 2004; in Oslo. Three men were given jail sentences in May for their roles in the daring daytime theft, but two others involved are still at large. Police have not released details of the paintings' return; museum experts who authenticated the works said they were scarcely damaged...
...SENTENCED. Bj?rn Hoen, 37, Petter Rosenvinge, 38, and Petter Tharaldsen, 34, to jail terms ranging from four to eight years, for involvement in the theft of Edvard Munch's masterpieces The Scream and Madonna, which are still missing; in Oslo. The paintings were snatched by two masked gunmen during a daylight raid on the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2004. Hoen and Tharaldsen have been ordered to pay $122 million in compensation to the city of Oslo...
...formidable past record of exhibiting artists like Edvard Munch, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein early in their careers. Though it was not able to collect in the past, the museum will now be able to purchase works from the next generation of rising artists featured in future exhibitions...