Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a slightly shambling gait and a dented cannonball of a head on which a hard derby hat was jammed like a secondary dome. His solidity and doubt come across in Self-Portrait with a Horn, painted in 1938, the second year of his exile from Nazi Germany. Max Beckmann holds a bugle, which he has just blown. His eyes don't meet yours; he looks away, listening for an answering note. It's a piercing image of the artist deprived of his context, hoping to connect, uncertain that he can. European man, signaling from a collapsing world...
Circling around this central situation are a younger sister (Natalie Portman) mooning over a high school hunk; a younger brother rebelling by embracing neoconservatism; a senile grandfather; a Nazi-ish maid; an ex-husband (Allen himself) for Mom who keeps dragging his current romantic troubles into the picture; and Julia Roberts, curiously disarming as his latest psychologically bedraggled draggee...
...written on her music in invisible ink and with photographs hidden in her clothes. In Belgium a group of women known as Dames Blanches seemed to be innocently knitting day after day as they sat at their windows, yet all the while they were counting the cars of passing Nazi troop trains...
...papers of one Major Martin, and chained a briefcase to him that contained disinformation about Allied "plans" for a Balkans invasion--when the real target was Sicily. Then they set the body adrift near the Spanish coast. As expected, Spanish officials retrieved the body and passed the briefcase to Nazi agents. They read the plans and alerted their masters, who duly diverted their troops and warships from Sicily...
...hostility toward Japanese Americans was so strong that I thought they were going to reopen the detention camps here in California. Now talk about the "Arkansas-Asia Connection" is broadening that hatred to include all Asian Americans. I cannot help making a comparison to the anti-Jewish sentiment in Nazi Germany when Jewish people were successful in business. Today Asians are a success story. Do people applaud President Clinton for improving foreign trade with Asia? No, blinded by jealousy, they complain that it is the Asian Americans who are reaping the wealth. What have John Huang and the Lippo Group...