Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Rudenstine's words, on his 20 years of "loyalty to the Palestinian cause." Were he alive today, Adolf Hitler, though "interesting" in the extreme, would still not be among those we would invite to our house, nor would we congratulate the man for his "loyalty" to the German people...
Notwithstanding her special interest in ethnomusicology, Shelemay says she has studied and currently listens to all types of music--from 19th century German vocal music to contemporary Arabic popular music to the Gamelan music of the Indonesian court...
...different world, all right: Vegas-style glam, with a heavy German accent. Indeed, the show--conceived by Berlin restaurateur Hans-Peter Wodarz and a hit in Berlin, Venice and Paris--is stopping in New York City (through March) en route to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. But the show, which offers a meal, a circus and a lot of comic milling for $150 per person (excluding drinks), means to be the ultimate upmarket version of show-biz spectacle. The decor is suitably lavish. The four-course dinner is ambitious, if too heavily salted. And the entertainment is strenuous...
...himself to a series of cold-water flats and smoky New York City jazz clubs. He got a break in the mid-1960s by sitting in with saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk; that was followed by gigs with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis and eventually a solo career, encouraged by German record producer Manfred Eicher, who recorded the young Jarrett on the fledgling ECM label in 1971, and has produced his records ever since...
...subjects are the British code breakers who with rarefied intelligence and brain-fogging labor broke the German Enigma code in March 1943. Their feat, which helped turn the war at a very dark midpoint, allowed the reading of coded messages to and from German submarine wolf packs. The subs, whose attacks on U.S. freighter convoys in the North Atlantic were starving Britain, could then be tracked and sunk...