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...Where are some of the places they uncovered artworks? Some were in castles like Neuschwanstein in Bavaria. The Veit Stoss altarpiece [a 15th century three-story wooden altarpiece and Polish national treasure] was in a tunnel in Nuremburg. The Nazis built false walls into castles. The mining system in Germany is extensive, so they also hollowed out salt and copper mines and built racks all the way around...
...water, no sex.” If the storyline of “Absurdistan”—the fantastical new film from German director Veit Helmer—could be summarized in one simple phrase, that would be it. In a small and mysterious village, comprised of just 14 families, the only water pipeline breaks down. The men—relied upon by their wives to repair the damage but plagued by their obtuse laziness—fail to act, resulting in a chaotic and (in both senses) dirty struggle for power. Desperate for a solution, Aya (Czech...
Since I consider Robert Hughes to be one of this country's finest art critics, I always read his articles with great interest. However, I was surprised that in his sensitive review of ''Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550'' (ART, May 26), he spoke eloquently of Sculptor Veit Stoss but not so much as mentioned the master's contemporary, Tilman Riemenschneider. It is true that the latter hailed not from Nuremberg but from nearby Wurzburg, yet all the qualities Hughes admires in Stoss's work can be found in Riemenschneider's extraordinary wood carvings. Riemenschneider was Stoss...
...DIED. KRISTINA S?DERBAUM, 88, Swedish-born actress who became a star of Third Reich propaganda films; in Munich. S?derbaum's movie career took off in 1930s Germany, where her blond, Nordic looks encapsulated Nazi racial ideology. Married to Veit Harlan, one of the main film directors of the Nazi era, S?derbaum starred in a number of his works, including the profoundly anti-Semitic Jud S?ss...
...benefits everyone. Seven successful GATT negotiations since 1947 have helped lift global commerce from $57 billion to nearly $3.5 trillion. The U.S. and the E.C. may very well patch together a compromise. "My prediction is that France will back off just enough to make a deal possible," said Lawrence Veit, international economist at Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. in New York City...