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...sent the wrong message—more detail might ruin the story. But Turow, in contrast to many others in his genre, does treat his writing as art, taking time in the mornings to write before practicing law in the afternoons at the Chicago branch of the international firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal...

Author: By Julia E. Twarog, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Alum's New Novel Takes on Death Penalty | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

...family name, Sonnenschein, translates as Sunshine, and its bearers at first prosper in turn-of-the-20th-century Budapest, selling an herbal tonic with that cheerful word emblazoned on the bottles. But they are Jews in an endemically anti-Semitic society. By the end of Istvan Szabo's three-hour epic, which traces the family's decline through three historical epochs--the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nazism and communism--the irony of his title is almost unbearable. There is little sunshine in Sunshine, only degradation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sun Saga | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...three principal Sonnenschein heirs are all played by Ralph Fiennes. The first of them, Ignatz, changes his name to Sors, in order to advance his career as a judge faithfully serving the empire. He ends up bitter and betrayed. His son Adam abandons his religion in order to join the right fencing club. He becomes an Olympic gold medalist, but--in the film's most haunting sequence--dies in a concentration camp denying his lost Judaism. His son Ivan becomes a communist bureaucrat, then revolts against that totalitarianism. The picture ends virtually as the century does, with Ivan melting into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sun Saga | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...sound could be heard: the impish artistry of the Comedian Harmonists. From 1928 until it was banned and disbanded by the Nazis in 1934, this male sextet brought smiles to Berliners in the political and economic dumps. One could almost believe the sentiment behind its hit tune Wochenend und Sonnenschein: Happy days are here again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harmony Is Still Heavenly | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...spend a night in a place like the Lincoln Bedroom, let alone pay for the privilege? The furnishings of the room look like stage props from the Addams Family set. Do guests in the morning wake up to Lurch entering with orange juice and eggs over easy? GEORGE SONNENSCHEIN La Jolla, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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