Word: veronika
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...Sugar Peas,” the true standout of the collection, is a funny and simultaneously tragic diatribe on one man’s emotional polygamy. Thomas is married with children to Jutta. He becomes entangled in an extremely serious affair with Veronika, who wants a larger commitment from him, and after years of his double-life, she gives birth to his child. At this point, Schlink begins setting up Thomas’ ultimate flaw: obliviousness...
Thomas descends into the relationship with Veronika with practically no thought of its consequences, which Schlink writes with a playful awareness. He almost winks at the reader through the page with his treatment of Thomas as a naive prisoner of lust. Eventually though, Thomas seeks escape from both of his lives. He begins a sexual relationship with a much younger woman named Helga, furthering complicating his odd situation...
...Veronika Cveckova, an assistant to the masters in Winthrop House and a student at Harvard Divinity School, says she took the job because of all the cooking...
Sixty-five years later, the good times are back for the Comedian Harmonists. A Broadway show about the group, Band in Berlin, and a Miramax film, The Harmonists (already a hit in Germany), both opened last week. Another show, Veronika, der Lenz ist da (named for one of its hits), has run in Berlin for more than a year. Barry Manilow is fine-tuning his own musical, Harmony, with an eye to a Broadway opening next year. Harmonist acolytes have paid the group tribute in concert and on compact disc in Germany, Britain and the U.S., where...
...elegantly tuxedoed on their sold-out tours of Europe and the U.S., they spiked their tight harmonies with expert, deadpan vocal clowning; they could imitate band instruments and barnyard fowl. They sang a love song to a little green cactus. They had hits with skewered serenades to girls named Veronika, Isabella, Marie, Lisa and, most famously, Johanna...