Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short speech noted the curious intermingling of doubt and joy enveloping the world: "Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grownups share to the full their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before...
...ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BAD TASTE by Jane and Michael Stern (HarperCollins; $29.99). If it weren't for bad taste, most people wouldn't have any taste at all. That seems to be the thesis of this arch and witty catalog of American kitsch. A sampler: Nehru jackets, vanity license plates, bell-bottoms. The authors treat their subject with affection and condescension; in other words, they are tasteful about bad taste...
HOME ALONE. First you have to get past the preposterous premise and spurious sentiment. Then you can enjoy the comic spectacle of an eight-year-old (Macaulay Culkin) fighting off a pair of inept burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) with the kind of sadistic inventiveness that used to enliven old Bugs Bunny cartoons. The final 20 minutes revive the almost lost art of fall-down- funny physical comedy...
...Sickening"). His excitement wanes with the daylight, however, all the more so since most of the neighbors on his affluent block have also gone away for the holidays. What most scares a child? The bogeyman, of course, and Hughes supplies two comical would-be burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), one of whom has posed as a policeman to find out when the family would be gone. By the time they arrive, Kevin has decided that he is too old to be afraid, and he has loaded the house with enough booby traps to stop an army...
...Michael Wolffsohn of Munich's Bundeswehr University says records of private meetings held between East German leaders and W.J.C. delegations before the Communist regime collapsed show that a representative of the Jewish group expressed support for keeping East Germany a separate state. "Reunification is not on the agenda," Maram Stern, an aide to W.J.C. president Edgar Bronfman, was quoted as telling the East Germans. "The W.J.C. will do everything it can so that it should not come about." Wolffsohn examined the East German documents last summer, but they won't be seen again soon. After unification, the archives came under...