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...women. In an interview last week with the magazine Stern, she attributed the impending divorce to "not just one reason but an accumulation of things." The main thing seemed to be Brandt's six-month-long involvement with Brigitte Seebacher, 32, a political assistant. Fumed former State Secretary Egon Bahr: "At Brandt's age, what nonsense...
Hanfy played the piano to soothe Hitler (Wagner and Beethoven were the leader's favorites) and his son Egon who later attended Harvard would wrestle...
...forever. Hitler played a cruel joke on Hanfy, had him "taken for a ride" in a German fighter plane with orders to parachute out over Spain, a sure suicide mission. The pilot turned back eventually and brought Hanfy home, but the terrified Hanfy had had enough. He fled with Egon to Switzerland and then to the United States, where he waited out the war before returning to Germany to live in relative obscurity until his death...
Such paintings are grounded in a Gothic past. In general, expressionism preferred the art of the Nordic Middle Ages, with their unrelenting insistence on the "four last things"-death, judgment, heaven and hell-to any Mediterranean tradition. Egon Schiele's knobbly waifs, all etiolated limbs and pinched flesh, are the lineal descendants of the fallen Eves in Gothic art. The expressionist body is a scrag of mutton with big extremities, very unlike the prosperous Renaissance nudes that, however mutated, survived in Picasso and Matisse. Expressionism was an art of confession, directed against the impermeable crust of a deeply formalized...
...provide a scaffolding over which he has draped an elaborate visceral poem. In the Chagall-blue-and-aqua forest of Costume and Scenery Designer Willa Kim, Daphnis and Chloë, two innocents danced by Richard Cragun and Marcia Hay dee, are instructed in the art of love-making by Egon Madsen's lithe and sinuous...