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...dyer used it to dye green the silk to be used in an evening dress for Emperor Napoleon Ill's wife, Empress Eugenie. Soon researchers, using Hoechst dyes, learned that they could stain living and dead tissue to study the origin and spread of diseases. Famed Microbiologist Robert Koch used Hoechst dyes to discover the organisms causing anthrax and tuberculosis. Over the years, Hoechst scientists developed Novocain, the first effective local anesthetic, produced Adrenalin, the first synthetic hormone, and opened the way for the company's huge expansion into plastics by discovering how to produce polyvinyl...
...writing that followed the nightmare of World War II was not a literature. It was a record of unassimilated shock. In books and trials, the horrors of the past were convulsively laid bare and the guilt placed upon major Nazis and lesser savages like "Hangman" Heydrich and Ilse Koch. But as the handful of notorious Nazis was again and again brought to public account, it became easier and easier for the rest of the Germans to think of themselves as innocent victims-lambs who had been set upon and held in thrall by wolves...
...amusing--and not all the credit for this goes to Chekhov. In a play which portrays such comic explosiveness of temperament and such undercutting (and yet tolerance) of sentiment, it was an intellectual pleasure to see amateurs capture so many of the emotional innuendoes. The stylization of Joanne Koch Schmelzer, her movements, her voice, her expression, were something to behold. Harry Knopf, as Luca, an old man, weak and frail, was very fine (and was an example of Knopf's versatility for those of us who remember him in Can-Can). As for Howard Kramer, the Boor, one can only...
They are the work of Alex Katz, a young man who in the last three years has achieved quite a reputation as a figure painter. These cutouts, which were the stage sets for Koch's play, are a side line for Katz-huge toy soldiers, a kind of instant folk art, that would be fine if everyone concerned did not insist on taking them seriously. "I like to mix what people and experts say can't be mixed," says Katz. "I like to take a vulgar social thing or idea like these cutouts and give them something else...
...Koch play, in its crazy way, is a good deal of fun; and so are the cutouts. Unhappily, the Manhattan avant-garde has a tedious tendency to flip over this sort of thing. The gallery press release solemnly says: "There is a directness about these works that goes straight to the heart of its subjects. The statement is at once simple and sophisticated, playful and elegant." And that just makes the release funnier than the show...