Word: newald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorists-and surprised a gang of car thieves. At a roadblock in Hildesheim, a town 18 miles outside Hannover, police searched a car and found wigs, rubber masks and two pistols; the occupants confessed they were on their way to rob a bank. In the fashionable Grünewald section of West Berlin, a brothel operator griped about a sudden shortage of customers: "Clients don't like it when the place is crawling with cops. The girls are getting lonely...
DIED. Irma Duncan, 80, adopted daughter and disciple of Isadora Duncan, the flamboyant founder of modern dance; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in Germany, at seven Irma Ehrich-Grimme joined Duncan's school at Grünewald as a scholarship student. She and five other "Isadorables" were later legally adopted by the famous dancer. In 1921 Irma helped her mother found a dancing school in the U.S.S.R., and after Isadora's death in 1927 brought to the U.S. a troupe of Soviet girls. She became a U.S. citizen and opened, in Manhattan, the first American Isadora Duncan School...
...nihilism of the terrorists worries West Germans; so does the inability-so far-of the government to subdue them. In what Chancellery Spokesman Dr. Armin Grünewald called a "tragic coincidence," the Cabinet last week adopted measures to strengthen Bonn's hand against the terrorists. The Cabinet action had no direct connection with the Schleyer kidnaping, since it had been prompted by measures tabled five months ago by the Christian Democratic opposition. The two sets of proposals, which the Bundestag will consider this month, agreed on a number of key points: 1) the trial of terrorists would...
Paul Wunderlich by any other name would be extraordinary, but the fact that in German wunderlich means strange, wondrous, bizarre is a stroke of poetic justice. More elegant than Beardsley, more graphic than Grünewald, more phantasmic than many of the Surrealists, his work is at once sensuous and intellectual, erotic and macabre, pungently realistic and wickedly funny...