Word: josef
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief shortcoming of the production is the atrocious Malvolio perpetrated by Bob Dishy. This is a particular disappointment after the fine Malvolios that Josef Sommer and Philip Kerr acted on the same stage in 1966 and 1974. And the role of this egotistical killjoy is so important that in the 17th century the play was sometimes billed as Malvolio...
...life of an artist, says Robert De Niro, is "a very show-bizzy thing. You're up and you're down." The speaker is not the actor but his father, who studied with Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers and "flirted with abstract expressionism briefly in the 1940s." Since then, he has had periodic shows of his loosely drawn portraits and landscapes somewhat reminiscent of Matisse. At a retrospective exhibition of his father's work at Los Angeles' Stuart David Galleries, De Niro Jr. was on hand for the opening. "I like my father's paintings...
...DIED. Josef Marais, 72, South African-born composer and folk singer who toured for decades with his wife Miranda; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A violinist with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Marais collected the rhythmic calypso-style Afrikaner folk songs, which, as a sort of bushveld hillbilly, he was later to sing in the U.S. and Europe...
...Liechtenstein's chief officer of foreign affairs. The offer was declined by his successor, Hans Brunhart, head of the Fatherland Union Party, but Kieber nonetheless refused to step down. The impasse virtually paralyzed Liechtenstein's government for two months. Last week the head of state, Prince Franz Josef II, 71, stepped in to render judgment: both Kieber and Brunhart could share the job. Now Liechtenstein, where only Switzerland maintains an embassy, has twice as many Foreign Ministers as it has foreign ambassadors...
...less than the devil himself. Anneliese's release from evil spirits came only with death, after she starved herself during a nightmarish ten-month series of Roman Catholic exorcism rituals. Two weeks ago, a court in Aschaffenburg found two priests and Anneliese's parents, wealthy Mill Owner Josef Michel, 60, and his wife Anna, 57, guilty of negligent homicide in her death. The four, who last week appealed their convictions, drew six-month suspended prison sentences...