Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a sassy toss of her blonde bob, a slash of red lipstick, and a sultry snarl, the debrouillarde has done it again. she is the German Heartbreak Kid. Predictably, Oswald falls for her; and precitably, she makes no bones as to who is boss. "You're not having an affair with me," she intones smartly. "I'm having one with you." Touche...
...Schygulla. The film has already garnered prizes at this year's Berlin Film Festival to her for best actress, and to Fassbinder for best director. One waits to see how it will fare at Cannes. Clearly Schygulla makes the film. For smoking sexuality, humor, and Horatio-Algeresque pluck, this German actress has no parallel. Cybill Shepherd, take note...
Natusch, whose uncle, German Busch Becerra, headed a military regime 40 years ago, lifted martial law and press censorship, then went on TV to pledge a vaguely defined "revolutionary" government of "national leftism." He also agreed to a plan under which he would become the dominant member of a ruling triumvirate that would also include representatives of Congress...
Though studies have shown that the rate of violent and sexual crimes is lower among gypsies than among the German population as a whole, they remain marked as dangerous people, as well as chronic pickpockets and con men. Tellingly, the German name for gypsy, Zigeuner, literally means "wandering swindler." Complains Romani Rose, a German gypsy activist: "If a sandwich is missing in the schoolroom, a gypsy child gets blamed...
Attempts by gypsies to move into decent neighborhoods invariably touch off protests. Most gypsies are confined to ghettos; in Bad Hersfeld, a town of 30,000 near the East German border, 200 gypsies live in old refugee housing that lacks hot water and indoor toilets and is so overrun by rats from a nearby garbage dump that children are not allowed out at night. In summer, when gypsies take to the highways in camper trucks as wandering salesmen and secondhand dealers, the treatment that they encounter is especially rough. Owners of almost 90% of West Germany's campsites, claiming...