Word: municheer
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...projected their visions of order, political terrorists kept up a counterpoint. In May, three Japanese gunmen hired by Palestinian guerrillas opened fire at Tel Aviv's crowded Lod airport, killing 26 travelers and wounding 72 others. Then in September eight Palestinians invaded the Israeli Olympic team's dormitory in Munich. Twenty hours later, 17 men, including eleven Israeli athletes and coaches, were dead...
After dozens of skyjackings, after the letter bombs, after the Munich massacre, the proposal before the United Nations seemed modest enough: to organize an international conference that would draw up a convention aimed at curbing such atrocities...
...does not come from their years of practice. If it came from practice, he argues, then musicians with the same training would not have such differing degrees of dexterity. Not even the size and shape of the hand seem to count. The first-prize winner in a recent Munich piano competition, Taiwanese Pianist Pi-hsien Chen, had the smallest hands Wagner measured...
...shape. Advanced art, that is. The diagnosis: condition feeble. The prognosis: poor. The avant-garde has finally run out of steam, whether in Munich or Los Angeles, Paris or New York; the turnover of styles and theories that gave the 1960s their racketing ebullience (Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Op, Pop and so on) has been followed by a sluggish descent into entropy. There seems to be no escape from that spiral...
During last summer's Munich Olympics, Soviet Gymnast Olga Korbut twirled and flipped spectacularly, then went to pieces and made a disastrous muddle of her second appearance. She wept in shame, and the sports world fell in love with her. Olga recovered and carried home two gold medals. Now it turns out that she is suffering from a slipped disk and has been sent to a spa in the Caucasus for complete rest. "We hope Olga will be able to perform again," says her trainer, "but it is not possible to say when...