Word: germane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief Tonis learned about the tunnels the hard way. Back in 1939. Tonis was an FBI agent assigned to tail a certain German spy in the U.S. Upon arriving in South Station, the suspect checked in at a Boston hotel and took a cab to Harvard, where he entered one of the River Houses. In the evening, he returned to his hotel. The next day he repeated his visit to Cambridge, entering the same House. But he never came...
...Heroes" leads off the final and most successful side. The Stages version, though it cannot approach the German-language studio import in poetry or sound, has a dramatic sound that showcases Bowie's vocal power effectively. "What in the World" and "Beauty and the Beast" are rockers which combine haunting power riffs with strong singing and enough electronic flourishes to give Bowie the feel...
Similarly, eight residents of Pelham, N.Y., had no way of suing even for medical expenses after they were bitten by a German shepherd owned by Barbados' Ambassador to the U.N., W.E. Waldron-Ramsey. When the village police chief threatened in 1975 to shoot the dog, Waldron-Ramsey warned against "possible international consequences...
...from Roosevelt to Admiral "Bull" Halsey to General Eisenhower's good friend Kay Summersby, are drawn with lively precision. To outline the war's broad strategies, he again employs an unusual device, an invented history called World Holocaust, written from the enemy's viewpoint by a German general and translated, after the war, by Pug Henry himself. As for the fictional characters, their private adventures take place against explicit historical back drops. The novel's involvement with the complicated struggle to build an atomic bomb includes a conversation on pioneer nuclear physics that is a masterpiece...
...plot is not the point. Horváth, who died in 1938, transports us to the world of George Grosz's biting satirical portraits of the bloated German bourgeoisie. Director Keith Hack paces the play with caustic Brechtian briskness, and the large cast ably meets that demand. Scene follows scene in revue fashion, and each blackout brings on the string quartet. At first the music seems endearing. Later, the juxtaposition becomes ominous as the waltzes seem more and more like a smiling mask shielding a leper's face...