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...time, opened a caf?-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form art. They randomly inserted a knife into a French-German dictionary; it pointed to the word dada, an archaic French term for a hobbyhorse. At the height of the movement, the Cabaret provided a venue for young nihilist artists to experiment, exchange ideas and make fun of conventional...
Former President George H.W. Bush was in the White House when the tally of his son's victory came through, and while he could feel the pride, his public demeanor was as controlled as it had been throughout the knife-edge campaign. "Our lives have never ended in the White House," he explained during the heat of the campaign's final days. "We don't live and die for the limelight or the head table or the plaque. George didn't think about losing, never discussed what it would be like to lose...
...grandnephew of the artist Vincent van Gogh, had just finished a film about Fortuyn when he was murdered. Amsterdam's public prosecutor says Mohammed B. shot Van Gogh as he cycled to his studio, then slit his throat and impaled a five-page letter to his body with a knife. The act was apparently in retaliation for Van Gogh's film Submission, a graphic look at abused Muslim women that was broadcast on Dutch television in August. Calling Van Gogh's murder part of a wider terrorist plot, the prosecutor's office arrested five men - four Moroccans and one Spanish...
...opened a café-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form art. They randomly inserted a knife into a French-German dictionary; it pointed to the word dada, an archaic French term for a hobbyhorse. At the height of the movement, the Cabaret provided a venue for young nihilist artists to experiment, exchange ideas and make fun of conventional art. Over the years the Cabaret Voltaire fell...
...typical scenario, one or two men approach the victim with knife or gun and demand cash,” the report said. “Cambridge typically experiences more two-person predatory robberies than any other type...