Word: josef
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...looming over the campaign is the experience of Franz Josef Strauss, the former premier of Bavaria who ran on the nationwide ticket in 1980. Like Stoiber, Strauss campaigned on his conservative record in Bavaria, but ended up alienating the northern part of the country and suffered a humiliating loss to the Social Democratic candidate, Helmut Schmidt...
...showdown began against La Salle’s Karim Rahimtoola, who only managed to take one game from Choo in a 6-1, 6-0 defeat. Choo then fought to upset Marchetti’s Hokie teammate, tenth-seeded Davor Dupljak, 6-2, 5-6, 7-5 before defeating Josef Novotny of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Colgate’s Reed Hagmann, and Dartmouth’s Chris Gonyer all in straight sets, 7-6(3), 6-4; 6-3, 6-3; and 6-1, 6-3, respectively, to earn the right to play Chu. The match would...
...Michael Chabon's pulitzer prizewinning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Josef Kavalier flees fascism in Europe for America, where he creates the Escapist, a comic-book hero based on the Golem of Prague, the clay giant and protector of ancient Jewish legend. Mythic defenders, Chabon shows, have long been with us. But it took America to make them into superheroes: big, magical men (and sometimes women) who protect us and embody our national character...
...heresy, homosexuality, alcoholism, and drugs...These people always seek out the superpower of the generation and develop coexistence with it. Before this, they rode on the back of England and on the back of the French empire. After that, they rode on the back of Germany.” Josef Goebbels, call your office...
Tucker has also mounted groundbreaking shows that have put Houston on the map as a city where interesting things can get their start. A good deal of what we know about Josef Sudek, the lyrical Czech master, or Joel Sternfeld, the indispensable guide to the American scene in all its lustrous oddity, or Brassai, the celebrated chronicler of Paris at night, we know because of exhibitions that Tucker organized. "What I've always loved to do is to look at what hasn't already been hammered out," she says. "In art history all the major figures have been researched...