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...fall evening in 1977, Tom Callahan, then a newspaper columnist with the Cincinnati Enquirer, was covering the fatal plane crash of the University of Evansville (Indiana) basketball team. Surveying the tragic scene where all the players and their coach died, he found himself looking at his assignment a bit differently from most of the reporters there, who were concentrating on straightforward news accounts of the disaster. Callahan was drawn to the quiet ironies, the little images that told the story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion...
Strauss's call for early elections sent shivers of fear through the Free Democrats. Genscher had repeatedly stressed to Kohl that he needed time to repair the damage to his party's popularity and that a rush to new elections could prove fatal. The respected Allensbach Institute produced a snap poll last week showing that popular support for the Free Democrats had dropped to 2.3%, a precipitous decline from the 10.6% they won in the 1980 national elections. According to the West German constitution, a party must get at least 5% of the vote to be represented...
...death in 1791 at age 35 is a rich source of drama and speculation. The man whom Joseph Haydn unhesitatingly acknowledged as his superior struggles against a fatal fever to complete his last composition. The D Minor Requiem is written for Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach, who wormed a place in history by secretly commissioning the work in order to pass it off as his own. Several bars of the Lacrymosa are probably the last notes Mozart ever wrote. The requiem was completed by his student Franz Süssmayr...
...well-publicized battle, "at various times...threatened to destroy Marietta or Bendix, or both," according to The New York Times. At one point in late August, it looked like each would succeed only in buying each other's shares, a kind of corporate analog to the mutually fatal duel of Hamlet and Laertes. The two companies--and a pair of other preying conglomerates--spent millions of dollars on legal and financial fees, while diverting the financial community's attention and credit for a month and discombobulating the stock market...
Nonetheless, in film after profligate film he described the fatal charm of the bourgeoisie for any working-class striver, or anyone too idealistic to recognize its strangling power. In 1978 Fassbinder was lucky enough to find a pair of screenwriters, Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich, who set this theme in '50s Germany, and retooled it with more dexterity than Fassbinder had shown in his own scripts. The result of this collaboration was a trilogy-Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982)-that blended movie melodramas with acerbic sociology, and revealed the curse behind...