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Harold’s heritage is complex—her mother is African American and Native American while her father is Greek, German, and English...
...Mitterrand's nobler initiatives are in the air these days as well, particularly in foreign policy. Next week sees the publication of the French edition of an award-winning work by German historian Tilo Schabert, the result of three years of unprecedented access to Elysée files and personnel in the early '90s. His conclusion: far from stalling the reunification of Germany, as some British and American scholars have argued, Mitterrand saw it as inevitable. His main concern was that a reunified Germany be firmly anchored in a unified Europe. "One can discuss Mitterrand's ethics or morals...
TALKIES MAY HAVE made them obsolete, but silent films went out in style, as this 1929 drama from German director E.A. Dupont proves. It's the All About Eve fable, with an exotic youngster (Anna May Wong) replacing an older star (Gilda Gray). Wong, the one Chinese-American movie star in Holly-wood's first half-century, exudes the toxic perfume of sexual danger and makes every woman around her (including Gray, the ostensible star) look frowsy. Like Wong, this terrific movie still has heat and a hard luster...
...Bambi stays true to Total’s formula. Track after track pummel the listener with disorienting lyrics that somehow have the same effect whether they’re in French, German and English: a fun sleaze, a purposeful blow-up of our conceptions of Euro-trash culture. “I am Naked,” the album’s lead single, is a prime example, as German singer Brezel Goring prattles on in kitty-cat vocals at a second-grade register about the virtues of nudity. The bad translations (and the frequent intrusion of a gruff gravelly...
...surrender the spotlight, Hanfstaengl held several press conferences throughout the week, entertaining questions from the pack of journalists hounding his path around Boston. On a stroll through Harvard Yard with reporters, Hanfstaengl was asked by a rabbi about concerns over treatment of German Jews. “I will say that the Jews’ situation in Germany is going to be normal before long,” he responded...