Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this money for one reason: reducing the supply of stock will make the price go up. Charlie Clough, the chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, even thinks the fall of the dollar will help the Dow reach 5000. He sees Wall Street as a Mexico for Japanese and German investors. Already, foreign buyers have begun to scoop up U.S. assets on the cheap, hence the Zurich Insurance Group's bid for Kemper last week...
...witty touches, such as a sampled British voice proclaiming over and over, "Don't worry; all your childhood traumas have been erased, along with most of your personality." "His Immortal Logness," Pomme Fritz's last and shortest track, is in many ways the best, combining the sound of a German accordion playing what sounds like a distended techno polka with a richly layered sonic fabric. It is ironic, irreverent and immensely enjoyable...
Through May 7. "Emil Nolde: The Painter'sPrints." Nolde, known for his vibrantly coloredoil paintings and watercolors, will be the focusof the first major U.S. exhibition of one of thegreatest modern German artists...
...guard of Crawford, Evangelista, Turlington and others begins to age, a host of newer faces is ready to supplant them. Among the hottest is Bridget Hall, a 17-year-old Texan who already has a lucrative Ralph Lauren contract. Nearly as omnipresent is the platinum-haired, preternaturally statuesque German model Nadja Auermann, featured on the cover of this month's W. Fashion watchers in New York last week, meanwhile, could hardly miss Irina, a striking 21-year-old Siberian, who appeared on the runway for no fewer than 18 shows...
...special message or mandate by God. There was the bearded Italian whom police found wandering in the hills around Bethlehem, dressed in a sack, with cloth bags for shoes and New Testament in hand, completely unaware that it was snowing, confident that he was Jesus Christ. And the angry German who phoned police to complain that his hotel's kitchen staff had prevented him from preparing the Last Supper. And the naked, sword-wielding man who ran through the Old City on what he explained to arresting officers was a mission to heal the blind...