Word: franz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hardly surprising that the legends of Brazilian football - Pele, Garrincha, Rivelino, Socrates, Zico all the way through to Ronaldo and Ronaldinho - are mostly strikers and attacking midfielders best remembered for their dazzling goals. German fans and international cognoscenti will certainly concur that their country's greatest ever footballer is Franz Beckenbauer, who patrolled in front of his defense in order to win the ball for his midfield. By contrast, the only Brazilian defenders who enter the pantheon of greats are those such as Junior and Roberto Carlos, remembered not for the goals they prevented but for those they scored...
...Lenny Kravitz. Following hot on its heels is the progenitor of Japan's alternative-music festival scene, the Fuji Rock Festival (fujirockfestival.com), from July 30-Aug. 1. This year, it will showcase nearly a hundred acts, among them Lou Reed, the Pixies, the White Stripes, Courtney Love and Franz Ferdinand. Pitched at a slightly younger audience is the two-day Summer Sonic fest (summersonic.com/top.html), on Aug. 7-8. Held in Tokyo and Osaka simultaneously, the four-year-old event will present the currently red-hot Avril Lavigne, along with the Beastie Boys, Green Day, N.E.R.D. and Sum 41. Finally...
CHRISTOPH FRANZ High Flyer Swiss International Air Lines, successor to the defunct Swissair, has been flying low since it took off in 2002. The unprofitable carrier is seeking to get lift from its new CEO, Franz, 44, who most recently worked at the German railway Deutsche Bahn. But it was Franz's track record at Lufthansa that put him in the Swiss pilot's seat. In the early 1990s, Franz helped then CEO Jurgen Weber free the German carrier from high labor costs and years of losses. Lufthansa tried and failed to grab Swiss late last year...
...Anyone in Europe looking at this result will think it's a printing error." FRANZ BECKENBAUER, former star player and later head coach of Germany's national football team, after the Euro 2004-bound Germans were humiliated 5-1 by Romania?a side that few had expected to stand a chance in the match
Perhaps we see too much in a smile. For Trumble, there's power in the mystery. Take Franz Hals's The Laughing Cavalier, where all that really laughs is the Dutch military officer's moustache. "A smile may stimulate us in certain superficial ways, eliciting a ready smile in response, for example, but it also penetrates the deep recesses of our subconscious mind," Trumble writes. "What makes Hals's portrait great is that it convinces us that something similar is taking place, even though we know at the same time that the source of stimulation is nothing more than paint...