Word: lola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duluth shelter for battered women, Lola, who married 19 years ago at age 18, said her husband was losing control more frequently: "He gets angry because he's coming home with a bag full of groceries and I didn't open the door fast enough. Because he didn't like the way I washed the clothes. Because the supper's not ready. Because supper's ready too soon...
...Lola H. Minifie, a senior admissions officer for the College who handles transfer applications, said yesterday she had never heard of a student submitting a petition along with his Harvard application...
...LOLA and VERONIKA VOSS Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Screenplays by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich
...enough to find a pair of screenwriters, Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich, who set this theme in '50s Germany, and retooled it with more dexterity than Fassbinder had shown in his own scripts. The result of this collaboration was a trilogy-Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982)-that blended movie melodramas with acerbic sociology, and revealed the curse behind the country's "economic miracle." They transformed the director from a cult commodity to a mainstream moneymaker...
...Both Lola and Veronika Voss are set in 1955. Lola (Barbara Sukowa) works in a Coburg bordello: chanteuse for the early show, and after that "the woman with the sweetest ass in NATO" for the town's corrupt burghers. Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is an honest public official whose idea of an evening's entertainment is to watch the test pattern on his new TV set. Unaware of Lola's occupation, Von Bohm takes her on a date to church-such are the idealist's hopes for a spiritually healthy postwar Germany-and falls...