Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gary Sinise accurately renders perhaps the most disappointed character in the movie--astronaut Ken Mattingly, who was removed from the flight for backup Swigert due to exposure to German measles a week prior to flight...
...midweek some of the immediate edge had been removed from L.A. County's predicament. By obtaining a letter of credit (essentially, insurance against default) from a group of Swiss, German and U.S. banks, the county soothed enough investors to sell $1.3 billion in short-term bonds at a favorable rate. The Board of Supervisors agreed on $267 million in cuts, but put off a decision on County-USC until next month. Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors will ask Governor Pete Wilson for relief from some costly unfunded mandates, as well as asking the state legislature for permission to levy...
Forcing prisoners to do hard--the hardest--labor is not an action we generally associate with today's American penal system. Soviet prisons in Siberia and German labor camps during World War II come to mind much more quickly. In most American prisons, convicts can opt to work various jobs for small wages. It has been many years since Robert Eliot Burns uncovered the horrors of chain gangs in Georgia: long lines of men chained together, endless hours in the unbearable sun and whippings for workers who did not satisfy supervisors...
Chief among the former was, of course, Picasso, who emerged from the German Occupation of France an emblem of noncollaboration, a hero of the left and of artists in general. His bronze Death's Head, 1943, is the perfect image for the show's beginning: a cannonball of impacted death, heavier than any imaginable head. Massacre in Korea, 1951, asserts continuity by quoting Goya and thus morosely pointing out that the disasters of war only recur. The cluster of gun barrels leveled at the weeping women comes directly out of Goya's The Third of May. They are fantasy weapons...
Koernke's passion, however, was science. He devoured science fiction (even today, the Star Trek books and the German Perry Rodan series, about a band of heroic warriors who take over the solar system, dominate his home bookcase) and, says science teacher William Eisenbeiser, devised elaborate schemes to build everything from a spaceship to a machine that would extract oil from shale. According to the Dexter Leader of April 24, 1975, Koernke won several science-fair prizes, one for a "communications antenna" that "is now being sold to nasa." Despite grades that several of his teachers recall as unspectacular...