Word: wolter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the "sanctum sanctorum," said John A. Wolter, flinging open the door to the vault, which was cool and quiet as a tomb. "And this," he continued, sliding out a drawer, "is absolutely priceless." The item at hand was a map, faded so much that to take it in entire one had to squint. Drawn in 1791, it was Pierre L'Enfant's original layout of Washington. And here and there on the document, bleached so faint by time that the eye could not make out the words, were criticisms scribbled by the era's most brilliant fussbudget, Thomas...
...fading away," said Wolter. "It hung in a surveyor's office for God knows how many years." It could no longer be shown to the public because it could no longer stand the light. Facsimiles, yes, but not the original. So let us move on, said Wolter; many other wondrous things repose in this safe...
Nazism was political tragedy that moved at the tempo of provincial farce, and that is how Wajda plays Stani's interrogation by SS Lieut. Mayer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and his adjutant Schulze (Ralf Wolter). These "good Germans" find it almost impossible to "follow orders." They debate Stani's skin color (pink or rose?) and attempt to match Stani's eyes to a set of 20 glass eyeballs thoughtfully provided by the Gestapo. Finally they declare him "in better than good health-You're an Aryan! You can become a German." When Stani declines the honor, they...
...reason for the increase is that women find the image of cocaine attractive: heroin is a grubby street product, and PCP, an animal tranquilizer known as angel dust, is the "unemployment drug" because it relieves depression. Some women seem to think that cocaine can bring better orgasms. Says Charlotte Wolter of the Women's Resource Center: "Cocaine is thought of as the champagne of drugs...