Word: petersen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American" style, but darkened by German guilt feelings about the country's recent past, the film becomes a kind of German Vietnam movie. But unlike Fasbinder (in The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lili Marleen), Schloendorff (in The Tin Drum), and Syberberg (in Our Hitler), director Wolfgang Petersen avoids discussing the complexities of the political, psychological, and cultural roots of the "German catastrophe" and presents, instead, a soldier's-eye view of the war. These boys do not see the battle as the culmination of Romanticism and Wagner or as the result of contradictions of the petty bourgeois character...
...Petersen's success in drawing the viewer into the characters' physical setting creates a sense of empathy for their mental anguish even if they are somewhat caricatured. The heroically low-keyed captain (Jurgen Prochnow) combines the steely bright blue eyes of an American astronaut with the scruffy beard and weathered skin of an old salt and leads a crew including an ever-dependable lieutenant, a neophyte war correspondent and more than one boy in love...
...coup de grace came in the 200 freestyle when Bernal stacked the Crimson entries with co-captains Countryman and Ted Chappell, and junior Andy Lockman. Sandwiched around Tiger senior Craig Petersen, Chappell churned to a 1:39.89 clocking, with Lockman grabbing second...
...Beisler (P), 3 McCluskey (H); 100-ye freestyle 1 Muse (H) 45 45 2, Gauthner (H), 3 Smith (P); 200-yd backstroke, 1 Orth )P) 1 56 32, 2 Bott (H), 3 Sappey (H); 500-yd freestyle, 1 Roberts (H) 4 36 32, 2 Countryman (H), 3 Petersen (P); three-meter diving, 1 Watson (H) 2 Muse (H), 3 Feyrich (H); 200-yd breastroke 1 Beisler (P) 2 11 30 2 Cartone (H), 3 Ewing (H); 400-yd freestyle relay, 1 Harvard...
...neither Reaganomics nor any plan for restoring business stability can be expected to work like an economic Valium tablet and provide instant relief. "It took us 20 years to get into this mess," says Getty Oil Co. Chairman Sidney Petersen. "We are not going to get out of it in the next 20 months." Adds James Howell, chief economist for the First National Bank of Boston: "Wall Streeters remind me of a mother on her daughter's wedding night. They just need to be a lot calmer, and we'll get through this...