Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rampart has inevitably inspired false tales of bravado and derring-do. Two weeks ago, Heinz Braun, an East Berlin tire salesman, captured worldwide attention when he claimed to have escaped to the West by painting his car to resemble a Soviet patrol vehicle and dressing himself and three mannequins in Soviet army uniforms. Last week Braun admitted that his story was a hoax. His coconspirator, West Berliner Wolfgang Quasner, said the bogus flight was intended to dramatize the tragedy of the Wall on the eve of its 25th anniversary. But there is speculation that the two men staged the stunt...
...surface while still carrying the sky or grass of the background--quote Magritte with an almost naive directness. True, Rosenquist could not be less interested in the literary and sexual side of surrealism, but the way disconnected images have always floated together in his work (the duck's head, tire tread and huge cropped face in Silver Skies, 1962; the immense rashers of bacon, their fat glistening among the stars, in Star Thief ) does not come only from America...
...wasn't a movie, but it probably will be. As he told it, Heinz Braun, an East Berlin tire salesman, last week painted his auto to resemble a Soviet patrol car, dressed himself and three mannequins in Red Army uniforms, and coolly drove through a Berlin Wall checkpoint to West Berlin. Wolfgang Quasner, 45, a West Berliner who claims to have helped more than 1,000 East European refugees in the past 20 years, identified himself as the mastermind. % Quasner said he and confederates photographed Soviet army patrols and then had uniforms made. They smuggled the mannequins and attire...
There seems little chance that police officers in any numbers would defect to the antigovernment side. Although nearly half the South African police are nonwhite, black activists consider them sell-outs to the apartheid system. They have been the primary target of Molotov cocktails and flaming tire "necklaces" in the townships. The army of 76,000 on active duty and 140,000 ready reservists is almost entirely white...
...letters, manuscripts, Valentine cards, income tax returns--but almost nothing from 1967. The biographer ransacked Vidor's three houses, prying up attic floorboards, prowling through crawl spaces. After three weeks of searching, he found a padlocked strongbox in the garage of Vidor's Beverly Hills guesthouse. With a tire iron he smashed the lock, and there it all was, Vidor's archive on the Taylor murder. Kirkpatrick is a writer whose prose is merely serviceable, but the story that he has unearthed is a spellbinder...