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...pioneer immigrant directors -- Maurice Tourneur from France, the Germans Ernst Lubitsch and F.W. Murnau -- imported civilized modes of fantasy, comedy and folklore. But the new exiles had darker stories to tell, and through them Hollywood found its caustic maturity. Here were artists with an outsider's perspective and, suddenly, an insider's clout; they could celebrate the temple of American success while keeping an eye on the cracks in its facade. The industry, or at least that part of it that handed out awards, was grateful: eleven of the first 20 Oscars for best direction went to immigrants, from Frank...
...Munich suburb of Gauting last week, two members of West Germany's Red Army Faction shot and killed Ernst Zimmermann, 55, chief executive of MTU, a major West German engine manufacturer and well-known defense contractor. Posing as messengers, a young German couple gained entrance to Zimmermann's white stucco home, forced his wife to lie on the floor and took Zimmermann into another room, where they shot him in the head with a revolver. Zimmermann died twelve hours later. It was the second murder by European terrorists in eight days. On Jan. 25, a shadowy French group called Action...
...Martha Washington geranium on the table and smell the perfume it left behind. He went on, fascinating us all, with stories of his Hollywood days. He spoke of how he did not like the heaving and panting sex in the new movies-too explicit. He preferred the way Ernst Lubitsch had handled the subject, by hint and suggestion-the hand of a bride dropping her nightgown outside the bridal-chamber door, then the door closing, leaving the rest to imagination. This conversation seemed pure entertainment. But Ceylon was important: it holds the harbor of Trincomalee that we want...
When the Cleveland Orchestra announced that Christoph von Dohnányi would become its new music director beginning this season, he seemed an unlikely choice. Christoph von who? The German-born conductor, 55, grandson of Hungarian Composer Ernst von Dohnányi, had made his career in Germany not principally as an orchestral maestro but as an opera conductor and administrator, most recently at the Hamburg State Opera. He had a reputation as a 20th century music specialist, a distinction that has little appeal at the American box office. By contrast, the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the proudest...
Last Meeting: At the Yale Bowl, Harvard downed Yale, 16-7, in the 100th playing of The Game before 70,097. After entering the fourth quarter tied at seven, Steve Ernst scored the game-winner for the Crimson with a touchdown run from the two six seconds into the final quarter...