Word: nchner
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...invest in New York City. They have already picked up a loft building in SoHo and an old office building on lower Fifth Avenue. Now the group is toying with the notion of plunging into a truly speculative venture in the economically depressed West Bronx. The Münchner's reason is simple: 'Why not? The property we're looking at is available at a price that makes it quite impossible to go wrong...
Wenders, shy and bespectacled, lives in a house in the suburbs with Lisa Kreuzer, one of the leads of The American Friend. There he has surrounded himself with Americana-a jukebox, gadgets of all kinds and, bizarre as it may seem for a Münchner, a collection of Coors beer cans. Kluge, a practicing lawyer, is an intellectual from an older German tradition, and ideas cascade from his mouth, almost drowning those who are not used to swimming in such icy waters. He abjures possessions and sleeps only an hour or so at a time, waking constantly to continue...
...Wednesday is a movable fast, and in 1978 it arrives early, on Feb. 8. So Münchner decided to extend the saturnalia into Lent. Churchmen were outraged. The office of the Archbishop of Munich protested that while the church appreciated "the joy of living" expressed in Fasching, it considered the prolongation "totally objectionable." Fumed one priest: "Ash Wednesday is a religious symbol that needs to be preserved even if it hurts business." So much for symbolism. Munich's Fasching organizers canceled masquerades after Ash Wednesday. But other balls and celebrations will go on until March 5, just three...
...Characterize a Münchner...
...nchner is someone who combines the punctuality of the Austrian with the charm of the Prussian...