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...Dancing is Raoul Trujillo, a marginally telegenic modern dancer- choreographer who reads his lines with unconvincing passion. Under a more pungent guide, Dancing could have skipped a lot of repetitive propaganda. By series' end, viewers will have heard the word culture so often that some may be tempted, like Hermann Goring, to reach for their revolvers...
...complex drawings of imaginary terrains, buildings and cities, infinite in their ramifications of detail and yet exquisite in their order, entitle him to be seen as perhaps the greatest psychotic artist whose work has come down to us. And some are known only to specialists. Among these are Heinrich Hermann Mebes (1842-?), whose tiny visionary-symbolist watercolors fall somewhere between Philipp Otto Runge and Persian miniatures; and Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982), with his fearsome moralizing fantasies; and the mental patient Karl Brendel (1871-1925), whose tiny, intense woodcarvings are so close in spirit to German Expressionist sculpture...
Seconds after a rich executive (cameo appearance by Edward Hermann) hastily jumps to his death from atop a Chicago skyscraper, local TV news reporter Gale Gayley (Geena Davis), who has just conducted a pre-suicide interview, instinctively asks her cameraman...
Good biographies and histories should capture the life and times of their subjects with the compelling voice of fiction. Although details about the origins of Trott's Hessian family (Hermann von Trott "became steward to a Hessian prince in 1253") may add something to our understanding of Trott's view of himself as a German, MacDonogh has trouble relating them to Trott's place in history. And if they add no compelling understanding of Trott, why provide the reader with such details...
Kuwait's five-star hotels were targeted for destruction by Iraq's defeated army; now most are back in business. The eighth floor of the 406-room International Hotel was set aflame, but employees prevented the fire from engulfing the building. Hermann Simon, the Austrian general manager of the International, hands out Iraqi cartridge shells as souvenirs. "Only an Iraqi burns a hotel from the top," he says. "That's why we are still in business...