Word: municheer
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...regarded his audience as feminine: "The mass, the people, is for me a woman," ready to be seduced. But the seduction was figurative; the woman who seemed to beguile him most was Carola Hoffmann, an elderly widow. He frequently visited his admirer's home in a suburb of Munich, where she did his laundry and indulged his sweet tooth; acquaintances were once astonished to see Adolf put seven spoonfuls of sugar in his tea. When Frau Hoffmann offered to buy him a gift, he suggested a rhinoceros-hide dog whip like the one Alois had used long ago. There...
Before long Hitler was dragged before a court. He and his fellow Nazis had attempted an armed coup in Munich; when it failed, the instigators were imprisoned. Here at last was the longed-for martyrdom, and Hitler seized it. Up to now, events had formed the leader: Germany's humiliating loss of the Great War, the Allies' insistence on reparations, the monstrous inflation, the centuries-old distrust of Jewish professionals and merchants. From here on, the leader would create the events...
...invasion, while Otto von Habsburg, son of Austria-Hungary's last Emperor, detailed for Gertraud Lessing the incongruously lavish meal he ate at the Ritz in Paris the night the government fled the city. Franz Spelman, who visited filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's famous propagandist, at her villa near Munich, discovered a well-coiffed blond who had just returned from scuba diving in the Caribbean and looked 20 years . younger than her age (87). Leonora Dodsworth tracked down Edda Ciano, Mussolini's eldest daughter, at her elegant apartment in Rome. "She has Il Duce's baleful glare and obviously still...
Scully is 44, a pale, knobbly-faced Irishman who was born in Dublin, studied in London and since 1975 has lived in New York City. The show of his work that is currently traveling in Europe (it has already been at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, is now at Munich's Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and will go on to Madrid in September) is not a retrospective. It covers his early maturity, from 1982 to 1988. But Scully has been fixed on the stripe since he was an art student...
...optimists believe economic progress will inevitably provoke political progress. "If economic reform works," says Franz-Lothar Altmann, deputy director of the Sudost Institut in Munich, "it will legitimize political change." The eventual goal is a gradual Finlandization in which certain bloc countries move toward Western-style market economies and adopt the political democratization that goes with them, reducing the adversarial nature of the East-West relationship...