Word: ernste
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...have gone into their subject with vast scholarly elan, mining arcana from the areas where art and life, under the impulse of a modernism striving to refresh itself, are layered. If you want to know what was the catalog model of Marcel Duchamp's urinal, which nursery book Max Ernst got a particular collage element from, or which frame panels from 1962 war comics drawn by Russ Heath were conflated by Roy Lichtenstein to produce Okay, Hot-Shot, 1963, you need look no further...
Ruge, whose father was killed in the war, studied history and political science, volunteered long enough for the army to get his parachute wings and then turned to journalism. Karl-Ernst Freitag and Artwin Priebisch studied marine engineering, spent a couple of summers sailing the high seas, only to drift into other endeavors: teaching for Freitag, business for Priebisch. Harm Smidt leaned toward the law but turned to the sciences and engineering and wound up a partner in a firm dealing with environmental-impact studies...
...million to produce a major movie, up 40% from 1985. (The Consumer Price Index rose just 14.5% over the same period.) "Studios just keep piling on the cost, thinking that they will get it back somewhere," says Jerome Gold, director of the media and entertainment division of the Ernst & Young accounting firm...
...love scenes with just a vase of flowers (A Woman of Affairs) or bedroom furniture (Queen Christina). She could suggest regal exhaustion with the minutest shift in posture, then fling an extravagant gesture at the movie audience, daring it to laugh. She could laugh at herself too, as in Ernst Lubitsch's delicious Ninotchka (1939). When asked, "Do you want to be alone, Comrade?" she snaps back...
...process of arranging enormous loans for overreaching raiders, the lenders and investment bankers paid little or no attention to whether the buyouts could survive over the long haul. The toll has been particularly heavy among retailing companies. In a study of 25 retail buyouts between 1983 and 1985, the Ernst & Young accounting firm found that nearly 40% had gone bankrupt or slashed their operations. For big-eyed shoppers like Campeau, the buyouts might have looked tempting, but they were hardly bargains...