Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Suddenly there was nothing wrong with places that were fun to look at and to live in. Eisner took advantage of the new spirit and hired such Postmodernist master builders as Michael Graves (for the whimsical but still somehow leaden Swan and Dolphin hotels in Florida) and Robert A.M. Stern (for the deliriously Disneyesque Casting Center...
Having a good coxswain--who sits at the stern and guides the boat and the crew--is a critical factor in the success of any crew...
...even some concern that Kohl is going too far in that direction. "Except for Hitler you have to go back a long way to find a German head of government who speaks so provocatively and insensitively about the outside world," says Heinrich Jaenecke, a columnist for the weekly Stern. "Hubris has led this nation astray more than once. The old symptoms are reappearing...
There was a touch of the mystical, the messianic, about him. In starched white shirt and dark suit, tie tightly knotted at his throat, spectacles ever in place, he looked like a stern schoolmaster who had spent so many hours in lonely thought that he moved with an evident lack of ease among other people. From his earliest boyhood in a Polish ghetto, he was propelled by a determination to help bring about the birth of a Jewish state. It became the dream that motivated his life, first as leader of a bloody campaign against the British and the Arabs...
...their new film, Howards End. "I'm the President, he's Congress, and she's the Supreme Court." The usually taciturn Prawer Jhabvala demurs, "They're more like Laurel and Hardy." Or the fabulous Baker boys, harmonizing from one dicey project to the next, with Prawer Jhabvala as their stern muse...