Word: riefenstahl
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...liked the abstract art, the 12-tone music, the absurdist theater, the austere furniture, the Manichaean bipolar geopolitics. And so, given my longing for an irretrievable past, I think insularity and exile are the ambient notes to strive for this year, as opposed to your mindless, self-annulling, Leni Riefenstahl-style euphoria. Here's my provisional itinerary...
Director Elia Kazan is like Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl: a great artist who did bad political deeds [CINEMA, March 8]. His art doesn't cancel out the evil he did in naming names of people who were involved with the Communist Party. Your writer Richard Schickel made the wrong argument in favor of Kazan's honorary Oscar. Schickel stated that Kazan's films are so good that they cancel out his misdeeds, saying history resists easy moralizing. The right argument is that Oscar should be about great art and cinematic achievement, and Kazan deserves the Oscar for that reason. MITCH...
...Germans view Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi-propaganda film Triumph of the Will...
...Steve Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jack Kemp, Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Kerrigan, Jack Kevorkian, Henry Kissinger, Bert Lance, Sophia Loren, James Lovell, Lori Lucas, Robert McNamara, Norman Mailer, Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Morris, Toni Morrison, Ralph Nader, Mike Nichols, Edward James Olmos, Jane Pauley, Dan Rather, Donna Rice, Leni Riefenstahl, Molly Ringwald, Mickey Rooney, Mort Sahl, Diane Sawyer, Claudia Schiffer, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Sargent Shriver, Steven Spielberg, Kerri Strug, Cheryl Tiegs, Laurence Tisch, Donald Trump, Peter Ueberroth, Paul Volcker, Andrew Weil, Raquel Welch and William Westmoreland...
...opening of the Fourth Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, all eyes were on Leni Riefenstahl, 28, an actress to whom Hitler awarded exclusive rights to film the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin as part of a propaganda epic: "That Realmleader Hitler...holds [Riefenstahl] in high esteem...is apparent to everyone...At Garmisch-Partenkirchen last week, much too occupied to engage in her customary practice of skiing up & down hill in a bathing suit to acquire a tan, she was even busier than usual, keeping an expert Nazi eye on winter sports for Fuhrer Hitler and giving visitors...