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Born in 1938, the son of a Lebanese merchant in what was then the British colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa, Berri moved to Lebanon as a boy. "He was a dynamic student, a very good leader and a passionate person," says lifelong Friend Nasib Fawaz, chairman of the Islamic Center of America in Detroit. "He enjoyed literature, sports and had lots of friends." Berri studied law at the Lebanese University, where he was elected head of the student union for four years. He later practiced law in Beirut without | drawing much attention. Separated from his American wife...
...Muybridge's wrestlers become Bacon's signs for sexual battle. But they shed their documentary purpose, and in doing so open the way to another discourse of figures. When impelled by strong emotion -- as in the Triptych May-June 1973, which commemorates the suicide of his friend George Dyer in a Paris hotel two years before -- the "shocking" images in Bacon are raised to the order of grand lamentation: they take one back to the classical past, but to its sacrifices, not its marbles...
...been Mengele. Ernesto Glawe, an Argentine-born engineer with a German father, described in a deposition how he had been drawn into the expatriate circles of Gerhard and the Bosserts. Only one year after that initial meeting, said Glawe, Gerhard asked him if he would help an old Austrian friend. Somewhat taken aback at this request, Glawe eventually acquiesced and began paying monthly visits to the aging Pedro, bringing him biscuits and chocolate. Surprisingly, said Glawe, Pedro spoke little about his life in Europe, though he said he had served as a doctor in the German army. Glawe at last...
...Mengele was living in the well- to-do Buenos Aires suburb of Olivos and practicing medicine with impunity, though without a license. On one occasion, it is said, a patient died while Mengele was performing an abortion on her, and he found himself in jail. Two hours later a friend posted bail, and the "Angel of Death" was free once again. In the late '50s, after Peron had been exiled and the West German government had issued a request for Mengele's extradition, the doctor moved again, this time to Paraguay...
Berg wrote his concerto in 1935 after the death of Manon Gropius, the beloved daughter of his friend Alma Mahler and the architect Walter Gropius. The girl died at 19 of polio and the composer dedicated the work "to the memory of an angel." Robbins' scenario begins quietly and a bit flatly as Farrell moves with increasing stiffness and bafflement between her lover (tenderly danced by Joseph Duell) and friends. Suddenly they move off and she is left with a gauntly beautiful angel of death (Adam Luders). Their pas de deux is the heart of the ballet. The moves...