Word: vienna
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...relatively modest scale. He and Eva plan to leave their daughters "comfortable," but the bulk of his fortune will go to charity. The Groves have endowed 10 chemistry scholarships at CCNY, made contributions to prostate-cancer funds and supported the International Rescue Committee, which brought Grove from Vienna to America. (He still remembers the day the IRC representative in Manhattan sent him out on Fifth Avenue with a blank check to buy the best hearing aid he could find...
...worry. Carlos is likely to spend the rest of his prison-bound life being convicted of other, deadlier crimes: The bombing of Berlin's French cultural center, and the 1975 kidnapping of 11 OPEC cabinet ministers in Vienna, to name just two. So, as nostalgic revolutionaries everywhere will be pleased to know, this is not the last we have seen of the Jackal's courtroom swagger...
...latest version of Johann Strauss' invincible operetta replaces Old Vienna with New York, and sets the story on the final day of Prohibition. Besides confirming the characters in their schnapps and vodka guzzling, this innovation allows for wittiness of reference: we got to see flappers onstage during the longer instrumental passages, and hear mention of Greta Garbo, Dillinger and Einstein. The evening's comedy embraced everything from metahumor and operatic in-jokes to puns, sight-gags and slapstick, and the freshness of the jokes kept the story lively through a potentially interminable second...
...campus Wilmington College party. In 1993 and 1995 the Ku Klux Klan staged rallies at the courthouse; though fewer than 50 sympathizers showed up each time, black leaders were understandably concerned--and their fears were heightened last year when the Aryan Nation set up its Ohio headquarters in New Vienna, 10 miles from town. The high school has been dealing with its own racial tensions--bigoted remarks hurled between groups of students--as well as a budding gang problem. A crew claiming affiliation with the L.A.-based Crips has been committing armed robberies and assaults, including an attack last summer...
ROMAN POLANSKI, who these days may be more celebrated as a fugitive from the U.S. justice system than as a director, opened his musical version of Dance of the Vampires in Vienna last week. But in America a drama of a different sort unfolded after it emerged that Polanski's lawyer had had yet another meeting with the Los Angeles D.A.'s office, sparking a rumor that he was cutting a deal to allow the director of Chinatown to return to America. The 20-year-old warrant issued for Polanski's arrest is still in effect. He fled to Paris...