Word: von
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...EDITOR" Diane von Furstenberg...
...Dersh thought as he walked, "Boy, this guy in front of me is all farshlayet (Author's note: far-SHLAY-eht, Yiddish for "all dressed up, like Robert Nozick")...But I don't feel challenged. These kids all saw Reversal of Fortune.. I mean, I got Claus von Bulow off, and they all know it! What's more, I'll give them the Talmudic or Yiddish story shpiel...They'll just eat that whole cute, ethnic identity thing...
...Braun to the $750 million infomercial business have resulted in the marketing of fewer gadgets ending in the suffix o-matic. In addition, Barry Diller's purchase of QVC has given the entire home-shopping industry an element of cachet. Diller was introduced to QVC by his friend Diane Von Furstenberg, who sells a line of women's clothes on the channel, and he is luring other upscale designers, among them Karl Lagerfeld, who has expressed interest in selling his chic apparel on the network...
When Christoph von Dohnanyi's appointment as the sixth music director in the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was announced in 1982, the reaction was nearly unanimous: Christoph von Who? The Berlin-born Dohnanyi, 53 -- grandson of the urbane composer Erno Dohnanyi, nephew of the martyred Nazi-era theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and husband of the glamorous dramatic soprano Anja Silja -- was nearly unknown in the U.S. Among the few who were aware of him, he was regarded as a workmanlike German kapellmeister with a suspicious fondness for 20th century music, and certainly an odd choice to command an orchestra whose...
...home. Zilk was the most prominent victim of a wave of 10 letter bombings that has injured five people in Austria since Dec. 3. Police arrested two right-wing extremists they believe are responsible for the attacks. All the bombs were accompanied by notes signed Count Rudiger von Starhemberg, a reference to the Viennese hero who directed the city's resistance to Ottoman armies...