Word: gemutlich
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...into a sweet-spirited menage a trois, and the Weltschmerz-laden song ascends the charts, but with this odd bullet attached: quite a few people have it on the record player when they commit suicide. The song's climb prefigures Nazism's rise--and the demise of the old, gemutlich Europe symbolized by the restaurant...
...York: Gemutlich Radicals...
...circle, the sphere. In his thoughtful, gracefully written catalog for MOMA, Adjunct Curator Kirk Varnadoe says that Moser and Hoffmann were out "to recover richness from reduction." The result, briefly, was a deluxe austerity, furniture and objects stripped down and spare but still eager to delight. Only in Vienna: gemutlich modernism...
...pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world to a new kind of architecture--even more extraordinary. It was intended by the German government to clean up the country's image internationally, to be a quintessentially modern thing, stripped of gemutlich nostalgia. It was meant to deny history, and Mies complied...
Hard up for cash, banks are willing to try just about anything to attract deposits. Some, like New York's Manhattan Savings Bank, are gemutlich meeting places where savers gather in the lobby to hear pianists play golden oldies. Others, like California's Crocker National Bank, have sought to humanize their temple-of-commerce image by handing out Teddy bears. Robert Klein, a marketing consultant to 15 banks in the West, reports that his savings-starved clients have given away 23,000 color television sets in the past three years and 650 mopeds in the past 90 days...