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...same time, Elsa manages to fall in love and she signs her property over to her lover. Without betraying the twists of plot that make this film such a pleasure to watch, I only mention in passing that her lover plans to give her up to the Gestapo so he can walk away with her fortune scot free. Her ultimate fate--and the resolution of the film--lies in the hands of the Englishwomen for whom she is both benefactor and object of snobbery...

Author: By Anne E. Wyman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zounds! Cher Goes Herbal | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...Germany who just want to have a good time despite the Nazi occupation? Well, have I got a gem for you. Just take the boyish athletic body of Robert Sean Leonard and replace it with the beerstein physique of a well-fed middle-aged man. Exchange the faceless Gestapo brutes for a surprisingly mild-mannered Herr General. Toss The Duke's sassy “It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing" in favor of "Veronica, The Girl Who Gathers Asparagus in the Springtime," and you've got yourself The Harmonists...

Author: By Annalise Nelson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Harmonists | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

...sign up to be a leader of one of these precincts. All you have to do is give Forbes the name, address and whereabouts of all your friends and relatives. In return you gain entrance into a secret elite privy to special campaign intelligence. Sounds a little like the Gestapo...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Campaigning in Cyberspace | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

Trouble indeed begins as soon as I descend into the T. I am stopped by an Ad Board Gestapo Patrol. Wearing masks to preserve their anonymity and sporting "No Escape" tattoos, they chant "none shall pass" and burn a mock-up of my diploma...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Seeking Asylum at the Harvard of the West | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...hearings and the other to next November, the chamber voted 97-0 Thursday night in favor of a bill to overhaul the IRS. The unanimity and bipartisanship was surprising, but not entirely unexpected -- after all, who would dare support a government agency that congressional witnesses have compared to the Gestapo? As the chief architect of the bill, Sen. William V. Roth, charmingly put it, the IRS "has too much power and not enough sunshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Some Sunshine to the IRS | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

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