Word: volker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public feud over the plant that Kohl carried on with Washington for nearly two weeks seemed to gather strength from other issues. These include U.S. pressure to continue low-flying Air Force exercises over West German territory, despite several accidents that have claimed civilian lives. Said Volker Ruhe, deputy parliamentary leader of Kohl's Christian Democratic Party: "These shrill tones show that the ice has become much thinner...
...ever the special, or even sole, Soviet target. West Germans suggest two ideas: 1) demand that the Soviets destroy ^ many of their under-300-mile-range missiles as well as longer-range types; 2) condition a missile deal on a Soviet commitment to reduce conventional forces in Europe. Says Volker Ruhe, a Bundestag expert on defense policy and adviser to Kohl: "Things are too much concentrated on solely nuclear issues." Tying missile negotiations to conventional-arms cuts, however, risks drawing out the nuclear talks forever. U.S.-Soviet negotiations on conventional-force reductions in Europe have been droning on in Vienna...
...Paul Volker [chairman of the Federal Reserve Board] is sitting in the front row," said Richardson. "There is no responsibility in the world compared to the responsiblity he carries each...
...character's unspoken, perhaps dramatically unspeakable, fears and fancies. One may therefore wish to approach Swann in Love or The Bostonians undemandingly, almost as one would an antique show, browsing and ruminative but not expecting to make powerful emotional connections with the objects on view. On that level, Volker Schlondorffs lightly heated rearrangement and compression of approximately one-fifteenth of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past is altogether more beguiling than James Ivory's attenuated version of one of Henry James' liveliest long novels...
...MEETS GIRL. He falls madly in love, wasting time and money on his object of desire, Girl retreats. It's the same old story, told this time with more talent. In the venerable tradition of films like Endless Love, Volker Schlondorf's latest is a tale of obsession. But where Zeferelli's version was a superficial skimming of a very good novel. Schlondorf's adaptation renders Marcel Proust some justice...