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When U.S. Olympic Coach Bob Ernst selected me for a seat on the main U.S. boat during the Olympic Trials this summer, I couldn't believe it. I had been rowing since I was 14 and had competed with the junior national team, but back then I didn't think I would get the chance to win a spot on the team until the 1992 Games...
...What an impudence!" fumed Ernst Hinsken, a member of West Germany's Bundestag. "Irreconcilable with the hospitality that should be shown by the host country!" complained West German Transport Minister Jurgen Warnke. The high-octane grousing in Bonn was directed at Italy, which last month imposed an experimental 110-kilometer-an-hour (68 m.p.h.) speed limit on its autostradas and an even more impudent limit of 90 kilometers (56 m.p.h.) on other roads. Yet even as Italian officials debated last week whether to return to the old 140-kilometer (87 m.p.h.) highway limit when the trial ends early next month...
...movieland, id and ego are often the same thing, and sexy Mae West is also good for several laughs. Director Ernst Lubitsch complained that West, who was her own screenwriter, was hogging the best lines in one of her films. Every story has two characters, he reminded her. "Look at Romeo and Juliet." To which Mae haughtily replied, "Let Shakespeare do it his way. I'll do it mine. We'll see who comes out better...
...Hunt says, Ui is both serious and funny. And as his sudden demise suggests, it is not subtle. Almost all the characters are none-too-thinly veiled portraits of real figures in the Nazi hierarchy. Hitler becomes Arturo Ui (Chad Raphael), Ernst Roehm becomes Ernesto Roma (Jeff Alexander), Hermann Goering becomes Emanuele Giri (David Schrag) and Joseph Goebbels becomes Giuseppi Givola (Anthony Korotko Hatch...
Although she thought she might want to be a writer, 18-year-old Tania Aebi was plying Manhattan's canyons as a bicycle messenger. Sensing that his daughter was adrift, Ernst Aebi presented her with an unusual choice: college tuition or a small boat she could sail around the world...