Word: sonja
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Verhoeven could have made a straightforward documentary on the subject; in fact he did, as a companion piece to The Nasty Girl. But in this movie he dresses fact up as fable. Passau becomes Pfilzing, and Anja Rosmus is now Sonja Rosenberger, a precocious sprite full of life and full of herself. The movie takes its spirit from Sonja; it is bold, nettlesome and great...
Verhoeven zips through his tangled story with all the brio of Brecht on a sunny day; his style is comic, ironic, daringly distanced. The girlhood scenes are played for easygoing farce and shot in black and white. Then the film bursts into snapshot color when Sonja falls in love with her teacher (Robert Giggenbach). Her hometown's streets and churches are stylized back projections. The Nasty Girl moves like an eccentric dancer, ever shifting its pace and mood, never losing its poise...
This week's cover features five twentysomething adults. From left, they are: John Neubauer, 27, of Baltimore, a teacher; Raul Alvarez, 23, an auto mechanic in Ventura, Calif.; Christina Chinn, 21, of Denver, a communications and business student; Sonja Henderson, 23, an art student in Chicago; and David Robinson, 25, a graduate student in English at the University of California, Berkeley...
...system available in all 50 states this year. By the end of January, 608,350 returns had already been filed by wire, in contrast to & 176,289 at the same time last year, when the service was offered in 36 states. "We are just overwhelmed by the response," says Sonja Norwood, the district manager in Los Angeles for H&R Block. "We're experiencing April in February." The IRS expects to receive more than 2 million electronic returns this year, or about 2% of all tax filings...