Word: lenin
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...wistful about the bad old days. It happened in Yugoslavia and to an extent in Iraq, and it broke out like a sweet fever among East Germans after the Wall came down in 1989. They called it Ostalgie--Eastalgia--and in 2003 it suffused the hit film Good Bye, Lenin! But for the imposingly named writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Ostalgie is a sickness in need of treatment. His urgent, exceptional first feature, The Lives of Others, is the ideal antidote. It has richly earned its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film...
...started with the Opium War of 1840, giving a vivid description of how the invading fleet of Britain bombarded the Chinese coast. He spoke as if it were I who had led the British fleet up the Pearl River. He described Shell as a multinational firm and said that Lenin had stated that such companies were the worst enemies of socialism. He turned to my family background, telling the audience that I was the descendant of a big landlord family, that my father was a senior official of the pre-Kuomintang government. He said that I went to England...
...considerable sophistication and resources. A rich, ambitious criminal syndicate might have been able to pull it off; nevertheless, normally it is governments that work on this scale. And obscure poisons have long been a specialty of Russia's secret police, going back to a "toxicological office" that reported to Lenin personally. In the past, the Russians were known to have developed a gun delivering a burst of cyanide gas causing death easy to misidentify as a heart attack, and tiny pellets smeared with the poison ricin, which has no antidote...
...last are the Sinister Turns, who are using the occasion to promote their new EP. Ever the diplomatic easy-goers, the band is reluctant to denounce their adversaries while they set up their equipment.Keyboardist and occasional trombone player Edward R. Sherrill ’08 is more Lennon than Lenin as we discuss his band’s intentions for their set.“In a weekend filled with hate, vitriol, and violence, we’re really trying to bridge the gap with our rocking tunes,” he says.And just how is this noble mission going...
...Though his work is highly-regarded within German-speaking countries, it remains internationally obscure when compared to the few recent German breakthrough films such as Tom Twyker’s “Run Lola Run” or Wolfgang Becker’s “Good Bye, Lenin!” After graduating from the Academy of Television & Film in Munich in 1992, Schmid began his career with several short documentaries and TV movies before gravitating towards narrative filmmaking. His first fiction feature, “It’s A Jungle Out There...