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...idea. Kehlmann has an overabundant imagination, but he's also a thorough researcher, which makes this an engrossing, enjoyable mix of fact and fiction. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Measuring the World manages to be both clever and entertaining, which is a science unto itself. - By Stephanie Kirchner 10. Georg Gerster, The Past from Above...
Swiss photographer Gerster has been taking aerial photos of some of the world's most spectacular archaeological sites for the last 50 years. This collection, edited by Charlotte Trümpler, director of the archaeology collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany, shows off ancient ruined cities in breathtaking patchworks and the awe-inspiring architecture of religious sites from the temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt to Caesarea in Israel. In an age when anyone with a digital camera can pretend to be David Bailey, Gerster takes photos that demand a helicopter, no fear of heights and decades...
From the beginning, the main characters were unable to convincingly handle the script's complex rhyming dialogue. In the first scene, Arnolphe discusses unfaithful wives and meek husbands with his friend Chrysalde (David Gerster). Little does Arnolphe know that he will soon be the victim of the cuckoldry he so readily mocks...
This scene was married by Chrysalde's pechant for forcing out his lines. The way Gerster delivered his lines seemed to mock Moliere's verse rather than genuinely interpret it. The conversation became a shouting match of couplets rather than a poetic discussion between two friends...
...cooler new military mood may also reflect the "feminization" of Switzerland. Women did not receive the vote until 1971, and they have become a more powerful presence in the workplace and in politics. "There's a male network to which women don't belong," says industrial psychologist Anita Calonder-Gerster. And their new prominence has not dissipated their hostility to the old-boy military system...