Word: karle
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...artists and chimneysweeps in his 1922 Berlin Voyage series, for instance, are two drawings, each titled The Disenchanted (numbered I and II). One shows well-dressed and bitter burghers with the nationalistic newspaper Die Zeitung; the second shows socialists yawning over a call to rise up from Spartacist leader Karl Liebknecht, who had been murdered by police in 1919. Beckmann, never a man for the barricades, seemed to be treating politics as just one more revealing but ultimately doomed human activity. Indeed, there wasn't much of the bohemian to Max Beckmann; he saw his dedication...
...proporz system, which for 50 years had divided plum public-sector jobs between socialist and conservative party loyalists. Haider still pulled some strings from Carinthia, but the low-key Freedom Party Vice Chancellor Susanne Riess-Passer won acceptance as a surprisingly moderate voice in international affairs. Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser, 33, tamed the budget. Their achievements, says Sichrovsky, made Haider restless and resentful. He sought support in unlikely places, visiting Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. He also rallied hard-liners within his party to press for purist policies, from opposition to E.U. enlargement to insistence...
...Republicans this election season, like the shaky economy, shrinking 401(k)s and a litany of CEO wrongdoing. A popular President is pushing Congress to vote on Iraq before Election Day, Nov. 5, and the timing could put lawmakers on the spot. Early this year, Bush adviser Karl Rove boasted, "We can go to the country on this [war on terrorism] issue because they trust the Republican Party to do a better job of protecting and strengthening America's military might and thereby protecting America." That said, some Democratic strategists still insist that come November pocketbook issues, not Iraq, will...
...Germany, Van Gogh and Matisse inspired so-called Expressionism, and the Merzbacher collection has 40 examples from the two groups of artists that pioneered the movement. The first, based in Dresden, called itself Die Brücke (The Bridge). The paintings of Erich Heckel, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluf look like a clash of Van Gogh meeting Nietzsche: fierce color contrasts are used to depict a passionate intensity. In Heckel's Red Roofs (1909), the evening scarlet of the tiles spreads out across the flaming sky, where flicks of royal blue dance recklessly. A house and garden have...
...terror is vital, dovetails nicely with Bush's way of thinking and keeps the Democrats off balance. But they fear that his real challenge is growing at home, where the prospect of a double-dip recession looms. Many of these Republicans were surprised in January when Bush's strategist Karl Rove said the G.O.P. will make the President's "handling of the war on terrorism the centerpiece" of its plan to win back the Senate and keep the House in November...