Word: sterne
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...office smash about life on a German U-96 submarine during World War II. In gripping detail, Peterson describes the sweaty, claustrophobic quarters of the boat, and the soldiers' desperate situation as they are under constant threat of attack by the British Navy. Jurgen Pruchnow stars as the stern commander, trying to keep the German effort alive...
...Canada border and also takes in all the British Isles, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and much of Belgium, Germany and Russia. Regions farther to the south could be affected too, albeit not so severely. Life in the far north could come to resemble that in Australia, with ozone alerts and stern warnings to wear sunglasses and sunscreen...
...however, the movement that Venturi had provoked was ascendant, ubiquitous. The more popularly celebrated and lucrative careers of Michael Graves and Robert Stern in the '80s and '90s depended on Venturi's breakthroughs in the '60s; Philip Johnson's highboyish AT&T Building, dreamed up in the late 1970s, might have been created by Venturi a decade earlier. "If you invent something," Scott Brown says, "it has a sort of agony to it. Your followers can take that as a point of departure -- it is much easier for them to make it beautiful." Finally Venturi gets to the bottom line...
Throughout the book, Araton and Bondy all but say the rise to financial power of the Celtics was possible because of a white network of allied interests involving the complicity of NBA commissioner David Stern, The Globe's Ryan and McDonough, part-owner of the Celtics Alan Cohen ("a man clearly obsessed with acquiring money") and, of course, Red Auerbach. As we read, we can hear the voice of JFK director Oliver Stone as he points to the Truth between the lines: Auerbach did not act alone...
...Ramsay would appear to be a classic sensitive narrator. But Wilson is up to something more, which gives the book considerable strength. Near the end, Ramsay betrays his best friend to, of all people, Raphael Hunter, with serious consequences. No one in the large cast escapes the author's stern moral gaze. Ramsay is last seen scheming, probably bootlessly, to pursue the latest young woman to fall in love with Albion Pugh...