Word: weber
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...hasn't felt passion beyond reason?" asks Klein, who reasons that you do not have to go beyond passion to make a successful advertisement. His lubricious jeans ads and languorous underwear pitches have now been joined by a kinky perfume campaign. The print spot, shot by Photographer Bruce Weber, shows three apparently naked men coiled around a similarly unclad woman, all bathed in an inky blue tint. Four 30-second TV spots debuted last week. Filmed by Photographer Richard Avedon and Cinematographer Nestor Almendros (Days of Heaven, Kramer vs. Kramer), they show four people--a young man, an older...
...waiting for the Supreme Court to make some kind of definitive pronouncement on affirmative action. In the 1978 Bakke decision the Justices barred racial quotas in university admissions, but at the same time they appeared to endorse the principle of affirmative action. And a year later, in the Weber case, the court upheld explicit hiring quotas in a voluntary affirmative action plan. Says Duke University Law Professor William Van Alstyne: "There is serious strain within the court...
...postwar cultural reconstruction of Europe. Dresden, a baroque jewel set gracefully on the banks of the Elbe, has long been a center of German musical life. It boasts a distinguished lineage of kapellmeisters that extends back to Heinrich Schutz in the 17th century and includes Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner. It has been called an "El Dorado for premieres," and so it was: among the operas first performed there are Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and Tannhauser, and Richard Strauss's Salome, Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier. Symbolically, the resurrected Semper Opera opened with Weber's Der Freischutz...
...proletarian staging. The first great German romantic opera and a major influence on Wagner, Freischutz is the story of a forester, Max, who almost falls into the devil's clutches trying to regain his lost marksmanship and win the hand of his beloved Agathe. In Herz's hands, though, Weber's tuneful, folkish fable became an undisguised metaphor of the new social order in the farmers' and workers' state. He illustrated the class struggle, for example, by having the villagers manhandle Prince Ottokar at the opera's conclusion. But with Honecker occupying what used to be the Semper's royal...
...Crimson trailed top-ranked Weber State by .0004 percentage points in last week's rankings...