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...show nouveau: a romantic and theatrical evening with a minimum of props and kitsch and a maximum of athletic daring. Along the way came a TV special for ABC and another for Home Box Office that won three Emmy Awards, both starring his title-winning counterpart, Katarina Witt of what was then East Germany. The TV shows taught Boitano that he and Witt, although trained since early childhood as solo skaters, could enjoy the different discipline of working as a pair and, more important, had a chemistry that satisfied audiences. Says Witt: "We both like to express feelings and live...
...gloom, however. VEB Polygraph is a remarkable success story -- a sort of Katarina Witt of East German industry. The five principal enterprises of this former state conglomerate -- Planeta, Plamag, Zirkon, Brehmer and Perfecta-will now be run separately. All make sophisticated printing equipment, and all are international leaders in their fields. Some other machine and machine-tool companies get good marks from Western bankers, including the Fritz Heckert plant in Chemnitz and parts of the October 7 group like the Niles gear-grinding machine company that had its origins in Niles, Ohio. The list of the tigers, though...
...Howard Witt plays Cymbeline, King of Britain, a man trying to save his country from the Romans and his daughter from a deplorable misalliance. The role has some emotional potential, but Witt is unable to rise above his encumbering royal robes, and succeeds only in seeming like a temperamental...
...East Germany's star athletes, two-time Olympic skating champion Katarina Witt, said in Munich yesterday that her government must think about the causes for the exodus and that changes must be considered...
...Witt, a member of the Communist Party, called the exodus...