Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nowhere are neo-Nazi outbursts more unsettling than in Germany. In one week in May, German authorities recorded the beating of a Zairian asylum seeker in Halle, the torching of a Turkish kindergarten near Bonn, the vandalizing of a Jewish cemetery near Wurzburg, five arson fires at a refugee shelter in Hauzenberg and the arrests of 26 neo-Nazis for chanting "Sieg Heil!" during a party in a Berlin suburb. Such occurrences have become so commonplace they rarely make the front pages and are simply considered a routine part of the German political landscape...
...models, and foreign luxury-car makers are jumping in too. Just last week Chrysler confirmed plans for a large upscale sports vehicle that may sell for as much as $40,000 when the first one arrives by 1998. It will square off against a Mercedes-Benz model that the German company will build in Vance, Alabama, and plans to sell for as much as $60,000 when production begins in 1997. Not to be outdone, BMW roared into the market in February by paying $1.2 billion for an 80% stake in Britain's Rover, whose sports-utility vehicles include...
...credit, Burton faces up to Bernstein's manipulative and relentless sexual predations without sensationalizing them, as Joan Peyser did in her 1987 biography, Bernstein. But here too he withholds judgments: the spectacle of Bernstein and his daughter Jamie both falling in love nearly simultaneously with the German pianist Justus Frantz surely calls for amplification. The moving finger, though, having writ, moves on -- to the 1973 Norton Lectures at Harvard...
...Clinton listened intently as his guests explained that the deadly Omaha landings had not gone according to plan. The predawn bombing raids had missed their targets; the undertow was so strong that many G.I.s lost or abandoned their weapons before reaching land; instead of one German battalion guarding the shore, the Americans arrived to find three, which immediately pinned down the invaders under murderous fire. Several participants reported later that Clinton seemed fascinated to learn that the most important feat of American arms in the 20th century had been riddled with so many errors...
...that make you cry. It's a simple matter of putting onscreen some wrenchingly sentimental image (sad-eyed dog with broken leg, widow on deathbed, noble peasant gunned down by soldiers) while a dozen violins tremble on the sound track. A filmmaker's real challenge is to create what German director Wim Wenders has called "emotion pictures": films that move you in a fresh way, with images that speak to the intelligent heart. Bernardo Bertolucci makes emotion pictures. He illustrates complex issues with indelible, seductive, ravishing images. And in his 12th film, Little Buddha, the Italian director has created...