Word: mannheimer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...RALPH MANNHEIM'S fresh translation of E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker with its Maurice Sendak illustrations is much more than a glitzy sugar and spice Christmas yarn it's a welcome return to textual accuracy. This season the perpetually smiling pecan masher's overly familiar ballet incarnation is finally stripped away to reveal the genuine handmade article from Germany...
...FIRST REMARKABLE--and very revealing--fact about a Mannheim Steamroller album is that you can never find it in a record store...
...release of Interludes, a collection of all of Berkey's interludes from the first four albums--a possible reluctance to continue along the same line. This, however, would not explain the additional lack of organ Tocattas which started off their last two albums. In pursuit of what, has Mannheim Steamroller foresaken these trademarks? They seem at first to be "playing if safe," taking the themes which everyone liked from their previous albums to make a new one, but have they merely forgotten some obvious favorites...
...antinuclear demonstrators in the streets outside, members of parliament voted 286 to 226 to accept a first shipment of nine Pershing II nuclear ballistic missiles on their soil. Within 24 hours of the decision, U.S. C-5 Galaxy transports had deposited the weapons at the Ramstein Air Base near Mannheim. From there, the Pershings were moved to the security-shrouded Mutlangen Army Base, home of the U.S. 56th Field Artillery Brigade, where the missiles will be ready for use by the end of the year...
Researchers at West Germany's Mannheim University have applied modern technology to detect minute variations in pressure applied to paper by writers. They are developing an electric grid microscope to measure precisely...