Word: rolf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inky black frock coats and robes, their heads are chalk-white and they sport Miss Piggy snouts. The Troll King (Frederick Neumann) immediately recognizes Peer as a closet troll and lays down the primal law of trolldom, which is the leitmotiv of the entire play. As rendered in Rolf Fjelde's lyrical English versification, it goes...
...final solution," Richter sketched feverishly, then finished the work later in his studio. The artist died in 1948, and it was only recently that his estate came to an agreement with the Berlin Museum. The wait has not diminished the painting's unsettling impact. Says Museum Director Rolf Bothe: "The artist tried to show a man who provokes fear, and he succeeded. Seeing this picture, I am afraid." Merely for having painted it, so was the artist...
...union aide as an afternoon of "economic swordplay." Ernst Breit, leader of the country's 8 million-member German Trade Union Confederation termed the wage-freeze idea "totally unnegotiable." Even among pro-business spokesmen, who generally support Kohl, the wage-freeze idea was greeted with trepidation. Rolf Rodenstock, president of the Cologne-based Federation of German Industry, feared the plan would undermine public confidence. Said he: "I believe it is not a pillar of wisdom...
...raped by her father, an Albany pediatrician. She befriends fellow Loner Stephen Herndon, who is hiding the shame and rejection of his own physician-father's alcoholism. By midstory Charlotte is on the sauce, Stephen is involved in a homosexual affair with a football star named Rolf, and both tumble into bed with another couple after a bourbon and pot party. At novel's end, Stephen is near catatonia, and Charlotte is institutionalized. One can hardly wait for Just Hold...
...away. Rolf has another son named Holger by former wife Veronica, a radical who is raising the boy in the Middle East and/or Turkey where she lives underground with a lover, whose wardrobe includes an exploding vest. Herbert, Fritz Tolm's other son, also belongs to an "alternate society." A married daughter, Sabine, is not politically inclined, though she has taken a compromising position with Hendler, her security guard, and is expecting his child. By fast count the novel contains over 70 other characters engaged in various plays, stances, conspiracies and love affairs both hetero-and homosexual...