Word: germane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Secretary of State for European Affairs, wrote justifying Democratic contributor LARRY LAWRENCE's burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Holbrooke is a wee bit defensive. All the evidence now seems to suggest that Lawrence, a former ambassador to Switzerland, fabricated his supposed World War II Merchant Marine service and the German torpedo that allegedly ripped open his vessel, tossing him into the drink. Says a source close to Holbrooke: "When someone tells you about something that happened to them, do you say, 'Excuse me, could I see documentary evidence?'" The source continues: "The question is whether he was who he said...
...death of King Ladislaus, an obscure fifteenth-century Czech monarch, is an unsolved mystery with political implications: a patriotic Czech is expected to agree with his nation's medical historians about the cause of Ladislaus' death (though no one is in agreement), rather than with the account of rival German historians. When Holub is quizzed on medical minutiae by his professors, he offhandedly conjectures that Ladislaus died from whatever ailment his examiner happens to be studying. The gambit works, winning him high marks in every discipline but one--gynecology...
After enjoying a fine opening from especially impressive celli, the audience was temporarily blinded by the bright, glassy, modern set, and seemed surprised by the English-language production. It's usually a bad idea to translate German libretti. It's also risky to tamper with the original setting of a staged work of art. Why, then, did this "Fledermaus" come off so well? Because it was damn funny...
That was in 1988, when Link had just emerged from bankruptcy. The company, founded about a century ago by an immigrant German sausagemaker, once had an export business in boneless beef as well as in tripe and hearts. But by the mid-1980s it was mainly a supplier to McDonald's. Too many other companies were competing to supply the raw material of Big Macs, though; they forced prices so low that Link could no longer make a profit. It went into a Chapter 11 reorganization in 1986 and emerged two years later as a snackmaker. Its new selling point...
...Titanic tragedy has spawned a dozen or so film and TV adaptations. A silent one-reeler, Saved from the Titanic, was released just one month after the event and starred an actress who had been onboard. There was a Teutonic Titanic, a Nazi-financed epic featuring an imaginary German hero. The 1958 British A Night to Remember is still revered for its balance of newsreel realism and humanist pluck. But diving into crowded waters is James Cameron's M.O. Except for The Terminator and The Abyss, all his films have been sequels or remakes, each grander and pricier than...