Word: ernste
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...reapplied for the German citizenship the Nazis had stripped from him. "During my time 'outside,' I did not for one moment cease to regard myself as a German," Brandt later wrote. When his citizenship was restored in 1948, Brandt went to work as an aide to Ernst Reuter, the colorful mayor of West Berlin, and from that vantage point witnessed the 1948-49 Soviet blockade of the city and the Berlin airlift that saved...
...have been made from metal. The artist who clearly had the biggest impact on Magritte, turning him toward fantasy and irrational images, was Giorgio de Chirico. And even then Magritte couldn't find a way to use De Chirico's unique scenography until he learned about collage from Max Ernst...
...assembled they are another thing -- just as Ernst's drawings made of rubbings from the floorboards of his seaside hotel became another thing. Here is the silent ugly cannon in the room of screens, each bearing a familiar image; in a second it will fire of its own accord, blowing the screens to shreds; we stand, as the title says, On the Threshold of Liberty. Some of Magritte's images have taken on, with time, a truly prophetic aura. One of these is Eternity (1935). Three pedestals in a museum, with a red rope stretched in front of them...
...firms can expect to be sued in connection with many of the past decade's financial scandals. A notable example: the collapse of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, which investigators shut down last July after it was found to be a virtual supermarket of illegal services. American firms Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse are being investigated for their part in managing B.C.C.I.'s books; both could face suits. Coopers & Lybrand is coming under similar scrutiny for its role as auditor for the media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who apparently looted some of his companies in the months before his mysterious...
...paid more than $50 million in claims before folding. Another major failure could be imminent, some analysts believe. The average Big Six firm has total capital of nearly $3 billion, but in light of recent damage awards, even that amount could be eroded. Of the Big Six, Ernst & Young may be the most exposed because of its focus on the financial industry. The ^ New York City firm audited about one-fifth of all recently failed banks...