Word: petra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...catch quarks in that playful activity, four separate teams of experimenters-involving 300 scientists from eight countries, including the U.S.-turned to West Germany's new PETRA colliding beam accelerator in Hamburg. The powerful machine accelerates electrons to energies of 15 billion electron volts and sends them barreling head-on into their antimatter opposites, particles called positrons, coming at high speed from the opposite direction. In the past, when such experiments have been tried with other accelerators operating at lower energies, the debris from the electron-positron collisions has consisted of only two "jets," or streams, of hadrons...
...Higshead certainly wasn't the only star to descend on Cambridge this weekend. Petra Schneider, one of the ten top East German swimmers who graced Blodgett's waters, pulled an impressive double win in the individual medley events. Krause added the 200 freestyle to her list of golds. And lanky 15-year-old Marybeth Linzmeier amassed the third highest point total of the meet, winning the endless 1650-yd. freestyle en route...
Fassbinder dares in different but equally bold ways. Instead of seeking stories in the strange and the exotic, he finds the strange and exotic in stories he knows. In one of his finest films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), he evokes intense drama out of what would seem to be a supremely undramatic situation: three lesbians enclosed in a small, claustrophobic apartment who do nothing but talk, talk, talk...
Fassbinder is a homosexual, and some of his films, like Petra von Kant and Fox and His Friends, have homosexual themes. Even in those, however, his concern is not really homosexuality, but power, its uses and abuses. His movies assert that in any relationship, personal or political, there will be the oppressor and the oppressed. But the worst tyrant of all is love. Says he: "Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression...
...story of Petra von Kant is the enslavement of love. Petra, a dynamic dress designer played by the wonderful Margit Carstensen, dominates all around her until she falls in love with a younger woman (Hanna Schygulla). Her young lover soon rules her, and poor Petra is literally sent to her sickbed. Only when she falls out of love is her fever broken. Critics have speculated that the trusting, innocent title character of Fox and His Friends is Fassbinder's portrait of himself, particularly since Fassbinder, who is also a talented actor, played the part. His friends, however, know that...