Word: willkommen
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Bienvenido! Willkommen! Irashaimase! No, that’s not some lame kabuki version of “Cabaret,” and it’s not the opening lines to “Babel 2,” either. It’s a trio of exclamations from the languages of some of the best movies at the 79th annual Academy Awards, a motley group of international films that have largely blown the English-language competition out of the water. Why the Spanish? “Pan’s Labyrinth,” Guillermo del Toro?...
...Cinderella-free, all-soccer-power battle for July 9's final. Whoever lifts the trophy, Germany has won: its Willkommen has been warm, and after decades of postwar ambivalence, its people have worn their colors with pride...
Pasty-faced and crater-eyed, behind his boldly rouged cheeks, the lone figure onstage when the footlights go up on Broadway's hit musical, Cabaret, is a garish apparition indeed. He twists his scarlet mouth into an obsequious leer as he whines the lyrics of Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome. The character has no name, no dialogue. But in Joel Grey's insinuating performance, the sleazy, empty-souled, fanny-grabbing emcee of Berlin's Kit Kat Klub is not only the glue that holds the musical together but also the embodiment of a nation's depravity during...
...young, sweat-soaked U.S. Peace Corpsmen emerged from the African rain forest to find a neat, white clinic in a straw-hut village - and a warm Willkommen from a couple of young German doctors, themselves members of a peace corps. If it has not happened already, such an encounter is bound to occur sooner or later. Struck by the success of the U.S. program, no fewer than 22 nations are beginning to field Peace Corps of their...
...students said that most of the rooms in the ex-Kaiser's Doom palace were simply furnished, but some were quite as pretentious as those in the palace at Potsdam. In the dining hall hung a motto: Willkommen wer ein guter Monarchist ist , welcome to any good monarchist...
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