Word: franz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...round-robin matches for the World Cup, which is held every four years to decide who rules soccer. The play was only fit fully brilliant, and it produced no wonder team, no commanding individual star of the magnitude of Holland's Johan Cruyff and Germany's Franz Beckenbauer in 1974. But when all but two of the national teams had limped off to apply diathermy and beer to their wounds, anyone not given to xenophobic sulking could agree that justice had been done. The teams that had been eliminated, for the most part, had not deserved...
...result, the entire ecosystem is completely off balance. During the past 20 years, at least 450 varieties of plants and 204 species of birds have disappeared from the region. With so many of their natural enemies gone, pests and parasites have proliferated, attacking grass, leaves and fruit. Says Farmer Franz Hummel, "Nobody even bothers to raise papaya any more-they are all full of bugs...
...Liechtenstein's chief officer of foreign affairs. The offer was declined by his successor, Hans Brunhart, head of the Fatherland Union Party, but Kieber nonetheless refused to step down. The impasse virtually paralyzed Liechtenstein's government for two months. Last week the head of state, Prince Franz Josef II, 71, stepped in to render judgment: both Kieber and Brunhart could share the job. Now Liechtenstein, where only Switzerland maintains an embassy, has twice as many Foreign Ministers as it has foreign ambassadors...
...falsification. If any world needed to be filmed in black and white, it was what French Writer David Rousset called I'univers concentrationnaire. All that obscenity transpired in an absence of color: ashes and smoke were gray, the SS uniforms black, the skin ash white, the bones white. Franz Stangl, the commandant of Sobibor, used to greet the trains wearing a white riding costume...
...intelligent artist in Northern Europe, after the work of Picasso and Braque became internationally known, could sidestep it. But the expressionists were not fundamentally interested in the neutral subjects of cubism: the quotidian landscape of cafe table, brown guitar, pipe, bottle and chair. Franz Marc, who died in the trenches at 36, turned to the cubist vocabulary of facets, prisms and sliding rays to express his pantheistic view of nature, the Eden of happy animals: "We will no longer paint the forest or the horse as they please us or appear to us, but as they really...