Word: wanderlied
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...Kids wander, and they don't always know what they're doing," Roberts said...
...these stories wander across the line of gritty fantasy. But categories kill, and so to say "Oh, yeah, magic realism" is to veer off several degrees from true north. The narrations are what they are, which is true of only the strongest kind of imagining. The Myths of Bears is a fine, loony love story. A brilliant, probably mad trapper, somewhere in the West, sometime about a century ago, drives his woman away with bizarre behavior, perhaps caused by something like epilepsy. She is bigger, a better runner, a forest dweller, who can sense his approach across continental divides...
...Society seems to need to dichotomize gender, [but] many people don't fit at one end of the scale or another. People wander back and forth in their lifetimes," he says. "The evolution will have to be [toward] more flexibility [in terms of envisioning gender...
...without its lighter moments. Fassbinder has remarked that Biberkopf has an "unshakable faith in the good side of people," and the women he attracts to him are generally reflective of this disposition. In one particularly funny and touching scene, Biberkopf seduces Cilly, one of the many women who wander into and out of his life, by sharing a pair of boots with her: they are big enough for the two of them to wear together, he says, and proves it. The character of Frau Bast (Brigitte Mira), the nosy landlady, also adds comic relief to the tensions of the film...
Will students recede to their rooms or will they be out in force? Will drunk undergraduates wander aimlessly around campus, or will the lack of parties contain the drinking to the carefully monitored confines of the local pubs...