Word: germans
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When its moment arrives again, this Saturday, the venerable--and venerated--relic will be slipped out of the silver casket that has protected it for centuries, through fire and water, doubt and blind belief. Gingerly, fastidiously, overseen by Giovanni Cardinal Saldarini and a German textile conservation expert, it will be unspooled from around its wooden cylinder. After a top cloth has been pulled away--red taffeta, sewn by Princess Clotilde of Savoy in 1868--the fragile, scarred length of ancient linen will be smoothed into place in a metal-and-glass display case built precisely to its dimensions. The case...
Such attention to detail is just what German del Sol had in mind when he designed the 30-room Explora hotel five years ago. "We wanted to create a place for tourists to spend a week without worrying about survival or unnecessary sacrifices," he says of his $7 million retreat in the windswept Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, a six-hour drive from Punta Arenas, Chile's southernmost city. "We aim to soften the roughness of nature...
Last night's judges were President of the Unitarian Universalist Association Rev. John A. Buehrens '68, Wellesley College Professor of German Thomas S. Hansen and William S. Strong '73 of the law firm KotinCrabtree & Strong...
...native America. The wealthy Germanhorse breeder wishes her to be the dangerous spybut loses her to decency and self respect. Often,the people who wish to impose an identity upon heract out of their own necessity to protectthemselves from the imprisoning forces of theworld about them. The German horse breeder fightsprejudice and hatred with bodyguards and securitysystems, the rock star Harlan manages fights witha masquerade of words and costumes and her husbandfights by reviving his identity as an African.With no simple guard at her disposal, Harlan mustrely upon a more internal system of defense--herrefusal to accept society's basic...
Oval is one Markus Popp, a German-born artist. Dok, a collaboration with Japanese musician Christophe Charles, is the band's fourth album. Oval's artistic medium is the compact disc itself--Popp evidently takes CDs, scratches them, samples the resultant skipping and manipulates the recordings into musical works. With Dok, Oval samples the results of a project by Charles in which he recorded bells from around the world. Popp subscribes to the social theories of the late Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari and makes his art according to their ideas of rhizomes and machines. His constructions are rhizomatic: they...