Word: fines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Germany has a lot of fine qualities, but being hip isn't usually thought to be one of them. Up-and-coming artists, especially ones from abroad, used to flock to London, Amsterdam or New York City rather than Hamburg, Munich or Cologne. As for Berlin, it hasn't been on the international cool list since Christopher Isherwood lived in the city in the early 1930s and chronicled the demise of its rambunctious culture under the Nazis. If foreigners came to visit, they were hippies, spies, U.S. Presidents or peeping tourists curious to catch a glimpse of communism from...
...treelined boulevard that was Germany's answer to Paris' Champs Elysées, led eastwards from the Brandenburg Gate to an island on the Spree packed with neoclassical museums. Behind that was Mitte and the residential district of Prenzlauer Berg. When the Wall went up, the East went down; fine apartment buildings, many of them damaged in the war, decayed further. Some areas were entirely razed to make way for the Wall and the death strips either side of it. West Berliners moved out into what had been leafy suburbs and the center of commercial life moved west...
...done a nude scene for the sake of it. There's obviously films that my children haven't seen--Trainspotting, The Pillow Book, Young Adam. But they'll see them when they're older, and I don't have many worries about that. I'm sure they'll be fine...
...fall sun. Her son, an American citizen, is an Army sergeant serving in Iraq. After being widowed in 1999, she left Senegal to live with him and his family. Her son called home immediately after he heard of the attack in Fort Hood, but she reassured him she was fine. Thiam says she has felt no impact and heard no criticism from her neighbors and says she is still proud to dress in her long robes and head scarf. "I fear no one but Allah," she says, pointing heavenward. "I depend on Allah. he will always help...
Instead of pressure, students in the graduating class of the country's Academy of Fine Arts fashion school feel utterly liberated about entering the job market after the crash. "Before it was 'What are you thinking going into design?' " says Rakel Solros as she put the finishing touches on her homework for the week - a jet black evening dress. "It may be harder to get the loan now, but everyone is prepared to do much more and make something real happen...