Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palast Cinema, near the bombed-out shell of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, as well as at scores of theaters in the rest of West Germany, long lines of Germans have been lining up to see a new hit. The central figure-his black hair combed flat across his forehead, his impassioned voice exhorting his followers to build a thousand-year Reich-is der Führer himself. The 2½-hour documentary movie about him, Hitler-A Career, is the smash of the summer, drawing thousands to the box offices and spurring a nationwide re-examination of the Nazi...
...author gives the puzzle to retired Chief of Detectives Edward X. ("Iron Balls") Delaney, who spied out the sinner in Sanders' The First Deadly Sin. Delaney's feet are flat, but his intellect is fully arched; there is no doubt he will track down the killer. That certainty is the only real shortcoming of this amiable book, in which Delaney's adoring young wife leaves love notes for her husband in the refrigerator. What might have been a tense and chancy struggle between cop and criminal is, instead, merely an interesting log of police procedure as Delaney...
...myself and exiled myself, removing myself from friends, family, and all the world, committing multiple ax murders and suicide all at the same time." And in the next paragraph Mee finally meets Haldeman, who of course turns out to be a nice guy--in fact "one of the great flat-out bores of our times...
...heart of First Amendment rights, and to the very limits of their use-and abuse-in a divided society. Even so traditionally liberal a group as American Civil Liberties Union members are not unanimous. Attorney David Goldberger of the ACLU describes the Skokie and Chicago actions both as "flat-out violations of the First Amendment." Protesters picketed ACLU offices in New York two weeks ago because Union lawyers had been representing Nazis, and some members have quit as a result. Says Victor Rosenblum, Professor of Law at Northwestern: "I don't accept that the same points are involved...
...return, the gondolier was supposed to devote himself to writing. No volumes appeared. In the fall of 1913, his sponsors gone and his vessel ship wrecked, still promising great projects, Rolfe died alone in his Venice flat...