Word: karl
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...addition, Barry Diller's purchase of QVC has given the entire home-shopping industry an element of cachet. Diller was introduced to QVC by his friend Diane Von Furstenberg, who sells a line of women's clothes on the channel, and he is luring other upscale designers, among them Karl Lagerfeld, who has expressed interest in selling his chic apparel on the network...
Common to all of these is the concern about aloneness, the dread of abandonment, the fear of a meaningless existence. Sometimes it is associated with anger at the perceived devaluation and rejection (the famous psychiatrist Karl Menninger said two people are often killed with each suicide); sometimes with feelings of guilt, inadequacy or fear of criticism that are so great that one punishes oneself rather than being punished by others...
...dream of a revolution from below would despair. Many of the Cubans we meet show no interest in politics, nor do they talk about a political solution to their country's problems. But not because this is a nation of devout communists: "Most people became revolutionary not from reading Karl Marx," says Blanco, "but because they saw suffering in the streets." Even in the privacy of a dissident's house, there is no eager call for multiparty democracy. Most Cubans do not seem to care what kind of political system they have as long as they have an economy that...
These colorful performances by better-known faces almost threaten to overshadow the strong work of Karl Johnson as the older Wittgenstein. Sometimes bewildering in his anger and self-hatred, at other times sweet and naive, this complex performance of a tormented soul is both intelligent without being pretentious, and intelligently humane. Also of note are Kevin Collins as Johnny, the lover of Maynard Keynes (John Quentin), as well as of Wittgenstein himself--sort of. Jarman is intent upon portraying homosexual love both as it is manifested in Keyne's and Johnny's relationship and as it is denied and gradually...
Miami's fate, it is often said, was sealed when Fidel Castro started reading Karl Marx at the University of Havana. The mass exodus of middle- and upper- class Cubans, driven into exile by communism in the 1960s, began a process that lifted the city from its utter dependence on domestic tourism into the global economy. The Cubans, given immediate political asylum and resettlement help by Lyndon Johnson and subsequent Administrations, prospered...