Word: horst
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...hustled onto a prison train to the concentration camp at Dachau. After Rudy's brutal death at the hands of their Nazi guards, a traumatized Max manages to get himself classified as a Jew instead of a homosexual in Dachau, where he strikes up a new friendship with Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), another prisoner interned for his homosexuality...
Despite their violent and dehumanizing environment, Max and Horst's relationship deepens into love, and finally--in a tragic conclusion which recapitulates the movie's insistence on displaying powerful images of the horrors of the Holocaust--Max is forced to examine his convictions and his own identity. The film's evident main theme: the ability of the human spirit to escape even the most hopeless of prisons, so long as the individual understands and takes pride in itself...
...problem is that it's difficult to maintain emotional identification with the main characters while we're having our minds and emotions numbed. For instance, the scenes of Max and Horst at work in the concentration camp--endless vistas of two ragged, small figures stumbling across the whiteness of stone or snow in their meaningless work--evoke echoes of the theatre of the absurd, of postmodern anguish a la Waiting for Godot. But it seems unclear why this effect is courted in the first place. The movie's ultimate aim appears to be a statement about the sublime aptitudes...
Stock ownership isn't just a way to better your lot in life; it's a religion that seems ready to unify the planet with a single Almighty. In Wall Street we trust, and trust, and trust some more. Patricia Horst, 62, president of her own business-forms company in a Cincinnati, Ohio, suburb, says every dime of her portfolio is in the market. "Every night when I download the prices on my holdings, I just sit there in awe of all the money I'm making," she marvels. The benevolent stock-market god--the true promise keeper...
...flyfish and learn about ecology in Urban Studies Professor George Thomas' course "A Day on the Beach," discuss the occurrence of statistics in Literature Statistics Professor Ed Lusk's "Statistics and Literature: Say What?" and study the figure of the artist in modern literature in German Studies Professor Horst Daemmrich's "The Artist in Literature...