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...fours.The next two pieces, “Sarabande” and “Falling Angels,” destabilize gender. Each performed by exclusively male or female groups, the dances play with societal conceptions of masculinity and femininity. “Sarabande” much like Egon Schiele’s “Self-Portrait Masturbating,” centers on male bodily function in both music and movement. Under hovering dresses, the miked dancers pulled off their pink t-shirts, stretching them in front of their genitals, while their grunts sounded eerily. In another similarly masturbatory moment...
...some ways, Helmand province - which I visited with the German general Egon Ramms, commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command - is a perfect metaphor for the broader war. The soldiers from NATO's International Security Assistance Force are doing what they can against difficult odds. The language and tactics of counter-insurgency warfare are universal here: secure the population, help them build their communities. There are occasional victories: the Taliban leader of Musa Qala, in northern Helmand, switched sides and has become an effective local governor. But the incremental successes are reversible - schools are burned by the Taliban, police...
...some ways, Helmand province - which I visited with the German general Egon Ramms, commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command - is a perfect metaphor for the broader war. The soldiers from NATO's International Security Assistance Force are doing what they can against difficult odds. The language and tactics of counterinsurgency warfare are universal here: secure the population, help them build their communities. There are occasional victories: the Taliban leader of Musa Qala, in northern Helmand, switched sides and has become an effective local governor. But the incremental successes are reversible - schools are burned by the Taliban, police officers...
...Bonn, the disarmament spokesman in the opposition Social Democratic Party, Egon Bahr, said Reagan "has broken a taboo, and the new perspective could be fruitful." But Manfred Worner, Defense Minister in the conservative government, called the plan "a program for the next century, not one to tackle the defense problems of tomorrow...
...immunity from seizure. Since the exhibitions opened on Feb. 18, no serious claimant has yet appeared for any of the French or Israeli works on display - a reminder, perhaps, of how ruthlessly thorough the Nazis were in killing more than 6 million Jews. Up for grabs are canvases by Egon Schiele, Marc Chagall, Eugène Delacroix, Claude Monet and Georges Seurat...