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...Gartner Haus, Estes Park, Colo. Chalet overlooking Lake Estes. German dishes: sauerbraten, wienerschnit-zel and potato pancakes...
Rape, plunder and suicide became commonplace. Soldiers entered the Haus Dahlem, an orphanage, maternity hospital and foundling home, and repeatedly raped pregnant women and those who had recently given birth. All told, the number of rape victims in Berlin-ranging from women of 70 to little girls of ten-will never be known, although Ryan reports estimates from doctors that run from...
...Victoria and Albert Museum organized a great retrospective exhibit. In Germany, where the sway of the Jugendstil (as art nouveau was called there and in Austria) had been total and the counterblow of the 1920s most radical, rediscovery began in 1958 with a big show at Munich's Haus der Kunst. In the U.S. the comprehensive 1960 "Art Nouveau" exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art launched the rediscovery...
...idea and tailor it to fit the German mentality." Result: he and Partner Leo Horrigan settled upon their own Musik fur Millionen, which pipes soothing background music into offices, bars, hotels and stores in six German cities. Three young Americans-Cecil Altmann, Robert S. Mackay, and John F. Herming-haus-pooled their savings and borrowed from their families to score strikes with bowling alleys in Berlin, Munich and Milan, last winter opened a ski slope in Berlin that uses man-made snow...
...both Billy Liar (an exploration of the caricatural fantasy life of its young hero) and this plush Boston Art Haus are variations upon the charming cliches of the capitalist imagination...