Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season to be sorry. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and other thriving German companies are now facing class-action suits from the thousands of slave laborers forced to work in their factories during the Nazi era, while Swiss banks that once swallowed Jewish assets have offered up $1 billion to Holocaust survivors. Former Bosnian leaders are facing international tribunals for crimes against humanity. And Jiang Zemin, his own human rights violations notwithstanding, has embarked this week on his first state visit to Japan, demanding written apologies from the Japanese government for its brutality in China during the 1930s and '40s-an apology...
...Spanky used to make fun of in the old Our Gang comedies. He's playing Noble Eggleston, a pampered rich boy so accomplished he goes to both Harvard and Yale. Short moves on to impersonate an assortment of characters, from a wheezing old millionaire to a dictatorial German film director. He sings; he dances; he makes costume changes so fast even David Copperfield would be envious. Is this the hardest-working man in show business? Little Me was created in 1962 as a vehicle for Sid Caesar, who played seven different roles. For the new Broadway revival, Short plays eight...
...daft, inspired, yet miraculously unhammy star turn. Short doesn't merely show off his versatility (how about that German accent, folks!); he creates a string of finely crafted caricatures. Truth be told, the Neil Simon-Cy Coleman-Carolyn Leigh musical hasn't aged all that well. Based on Patrick Dennis' satiric memoir of a fictional grande dame of the stage and screen, it's too sketchy and weightless, with a rather severe dramatic flaw: the central character (played by the full-voiced, full-figured Faith Prince) is constantly upstaged by her multi-role-playing co-star...
...YORK: They've already bought up Random House, Chrysler and even Rolls Royce this year. And now the world's biggest bank is no longer American or Swiss but German, following the announcement Monday that Deutsche Bank AG would officially gobble up BankersTrust for $10.1 billion. Is Germany trying to take over the world? TIME Brussels bureau chief James Graff says the country still has a lot of catching...
...German firms have long been woefully under-represented in cross-border holdings," he says. "But thanks to the German stock market, these companies have a lot of money to spend." German banks were raised on low-excitement commercial loans -- now they want a piece of the sexy securities loot, and that's where BankersTrust came in. It's not world domination, it's just the global economy...