Word: germane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genius for white-collar crime doesn't mean you're suited for life on the lam. Exactly four months to the day after he fled his Connecticut mansion, his financial empire crumbling, fugitive money manager and astrologist Martin Frankel was captured in Germany. "You got me," Frankel told German police and an FBI agent when they found him in his hotel room shortly before 9 a.m. local time. The amazing thing is that it took this long. For a meticulous man who had constructed what an investigator described as "one of the greatest scams successfully perpetrated in history," Frankel didn...
...they do indeed unknot--you'll find a maniacal, systematic and deeply imagined vision of a world as strangely alternate as Lewis Carroll's in Through the Looking Glass. If you dig into the swelling body of criticism about Barney, knowing references repeat themselves, from Joseph Beuys, the late German master of performance art and social spectacles, to video pioneer Vito Acconci to the powerful minimalist sculptor Richard Serra--each of whom dramatically reshaped the artistic landscape. Barney follows, doing what all visionary artists do: he creates a parallel universe that reflects something wholly novel about our own, though through...
...desk chairs, lawn sets and household tools are courting the world's top artists in a bid to make design a critical selling point. Like Graves, architect Philippe Starck is busy putting his mark of conceptual brilliance on a lineup of bathroom fixtures, from sinks to urinals, for the German company Duravit. And designer Marc Newson, 35, has done kitchen accessories for Italy's upscale Alessi, a bicycle for Denmark's Biomega, and the bar at Andre Balazs' new Standard Hotel in Los Angeles--in addition to a car for Ford...
Imagine moving Capitol Hill and the White House from Washington, D.C., to downtown Manhattan, and you?d have some idea of how German legislators must be feeling. Germany?s government opened for business in Berlin Monday, for the first time since Russian troops raised their flag on the Reichstag in 1945. And, like the press corps assigned to cover it, Germany?s political class is reveling in the decision to move the capital from the sleepy provincial city of Bonn. "I?ve yet to talk to anybody who?s unhappy about the move," says TIME Berlin (formerly Bonn) bureau chief...
...magnet that drew the capital back to Berlin wasn?t the city?s storied nightlife. Berlin had been Germany?s historic capital, and the establishment of the West German government in Bonn was an expression of postwar trauma (and an acknowledgment of the difficulties of operating in isolated West Berlin). "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made clear after the war that the reason they chose Bonn was precisely because they were looking for a city without a history," says Wallace. The return to Berlin, its reviled wall now shattered into millions of sobering souvenirs, is a sign then that after the horrors...