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Playwright Friederich Dürrenmatt’s darkly comic tale of love, murder, identity and physics sparkles with absurdist charm thanks in large part to the production’s cast, which is stellar: each and every one. Alan D. Zackheim ’06 is somber and compelling as the solitary physicist-on-a-mission Johann Mobius, and his single-mindedly devoted yet star-crossed love interest Nurse Monika (Erica R. Lipez ’05) transcends the surreal and silly qualities of her character to turn in an occasionally poignant performance...
...Mengele has vanished behind a curtain of supposition and speculation, becoming an almost mythic figure whom many have claimed to have seen just about everywhere. The ubiquity is partly explained by the thesaurus of aliases under which he operated. At one point, Mengele called himself "Fausto Ridon," at another "Friederich Elder von Breitenbach." He also passed himself off as "Gregorio Gregori," "Jose Alvarez Aspiazu" and "Pedro Caballero...
...deco movement. Isadora Duncan by Alberto Savinio (Franco Maria Ricci; 184 pages; $125) shows just how exquisite some of these miniature sculptures became. All works pictured here were inspired, in one way or another, by the blithe spirit of American Dancer Isadora Duncan. Artists like Demeter Chiparus and Friederich Preiss, whose names are familiar today only to collectors, shaped ivory as if it were butter; the dancing figures they carved were adorned with bronze and stood or reclined on bases of marble or onyx. Many of the statuettes hover at the brink of kitsch, but their brilliant colors and glowing...
...city councilors, but Vienna is still almost as cool as it always was to its most illustrious modern son. Of the city's 113 listed psychiatrists, only twelve practice Freud's analysis, and Vienna's Freud Society was founded only a year ago-by Professor Friederich Hacker of Los Angeles. A clear case of repression...
...possible migration of blacks from East St. Louis and about marijuana wafting in from the cities. Mascoutah is a resolutely conservative place; yet it turns out that the nation's new population center lies in the middle of a field that slumbers fallow because the U.S. pays Farmer Friederich not to plant anything there...