Word: norbert
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pledged as collateral for loans. At a press conference last week, executives said that KirchMedia owed Hollywood studios $441 million for rights to films - the first time that debt was disclosed. "The only one with all the figures is Leo himself, who kept them all in his head," said Norbert Schneider, chairman of a German media institute...
Computer pioneer Norbert Wiener once advised, "Render unto man the things which are man's and unto the computer the things which are the computer's." As the experiences of people like Stelarc, Brian Holgersen and Marie show, it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference...
...Thompson's book, which is too perfunctory with the minor characters and can't really bring off the couple's Act II decline into guilt and self-destruction. Bierko and Levering, moreover, are too bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost stops the show. The irony is somewhat jarring...
...Thompson's book, which is too perfunctory with the minor characters and can't really bring off the couple's Act II decline into guilt and self-destruction. Bierko and Levering, moreover, are too bland as actors to really give this story the emotional punch it is striving for. Norbert Leo Butz, against all odds, becomes the standout in the cast, turning from sickly victim into a song-and-dance ghost, who comments ironically on the couple's plight in a swinging, Cy Colemanesque number, "Oh! Ain't That Sweet," that almost stops the show. The irony is somewhat jarring...
...award, by creating an easy optical illusion with their floor. (Ridges cut into the floor and painted orange on one side and blue on the other caused the floor to miraculously change colors depending on your position.) The Switzerland pavilion showed the work of Urs Luthi, Andy Guhl and Norbert Moslang, providing inspirational messages on coffee mugs and mannequins on exercise equipment...