Word: hitleritis
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...which Newsweek replies, sure, people kill people, but after all “there has been only one Hitler.” And they’re right, but that observation rather misses the point, because alongside Hitler there was Himmler, and Goering, and Goebbels, and Heydrich—not to mention the whole Nazi Party apparatus, made up of ordinary German folk. And if you think, like Daniel Goldhagen of Hitler’s Willing Executioners fame, that killing your neighbor is a uniquely Deutsche phenomenon, then maybe you’d like to be introduced...
...wouldn't be the first time Tamerlane has struck from his grave. On June 22, 1941, Soviet archaeologists working in the Samarkand crypt opened the sarcophagus to study the body and found the inscription: "Whoever opens this will be defeated by an enemy more fearsome than I." Hours later, Hitler invaded Russia. Five weeks after the great Emir was reinterred in 1942, the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad...
...moment obsolete, collateral damage remains, as if to keep up tradition. We no longer have the higher moral purposes (such as eliminating Hitler or saving human freedom) but keep the ghastliness of war. We have drifted far out of sight of the Geneva Conventions, or of any rules at all. "Women and children first," once the formula of lifeboat gallantry, takes on an evil meaning...
...reasons. Great musicals have great scores, and the songs that Mel Brooks has concocted are bright and bouncy, but hardly memorable; the song you?re humming on the way out of the theater will most likely be the one you were humming on the way in - "Springtime for Hitler." Great musicals have love stories that are organic to the plot, not tacked on the way the romance between Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) and his buxom Swedish secretary (Cady Huffman) has obviously been here, just because the movie had none. Finally, as sharp as director/choreographer Susan Stroman's work in staging...
...BROOKS Producers gets raves; show sold out. Who knew Hitler was a gold mine, besides the Swiss...