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...could be counted in the dozens. They showed French and Soviet films to the cinerati. But there were also many theaters for first- and second-generation immigrants homesick for the kinds of movies they left back in the old country. Hence the foreign-language pictures, typically without subtitles, in German, Greek and Italian neighborhoods...
...Holland’s latest film “Copying Beethoven” captures such a slump, showing us the last, deafened days of Beethoven, with the Ninth at his back. Holland, who directed “The Secret Garden,” enlists Ed Harris to play the German genius, and though both director and star create much bluster and intensity, neither of them offer the audience much more than empty sound and fury. Apart from the music itself, the story told in the film is blatantly fictitious and will likely offend the aficionado’s sense...
...most, Arabian cuisine conjures up convivial images of heaping portions of everything from meat tagine and curried vegetable couscous to various succulent takes on lamb. Not so for Ingo Maass. The German-born executive chef at Dubai's JW Marriott is out to change the traditional culinary take on the Arab world in a cookbook titled Dubai: New Arabian Cuisine, written by Lutz Jäkel. Along with his counterparts, Frenchman Christian Jean, Egyptian Amgad Zaki and Syrian Khalil Zakhem, Maass - who has built a reputation for successfully inventing new takes on old standards during his decade-long tenure...
...into Carlyon's mind for weeks. "What was he doing when the shell hit?" he writes. "Who wept for him?" Near Pozi?res, whose capture in 1916 cost 8,000 Australian lives, Carlyon stood on a height known as the Windmill. From there, "you could almost sketch in what a German would have seen on the first day of the Somme," he says, hands sweeping an imaginary horizon. "The observation balloons, a great arc of gray smoke where the British were attacking on this very long front. You would have heard the artillery, seen the planes. It came alive at that...
...General Harold "Pompey" Elliott, a solicitor, describes men "going down before the machine guns like corn before the reaper ... I am sure there was some plan at the back of the attack but it is difficult to know what it was." Sergeant Archie Barwick, a farmer, writes of the German bombardment at Pozi?res: "Men were driven stark staring mad ... Any amount of them could be seen crying & sobbing like children." Corporal Arthur Thomas, a tailor, writes home on his 40th birthday, "I should be out of it by now, but men are wanted, so will stick...