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...white BMW), to a lock of Elvis' dark brown hair. With its yellowed magazine and newspaper clippings, the show measures the impact of Elvis - and U.S. pop culture - on postwar Germany. But Elvis brought back a little Germany to the U.S. , too. In his 1960 recording of the folksy Wooden Heart, he croons in English and German: "Muss i denn zum Städtele hinaus? [So do I have to leave town?]" He's right, he left, he's gone. tel: (49-228) 91650; www.hdg.de
...Assaults--the new one's pretty good, the old one near great--are of tone, style and perspective. Richet's m??tier is juiced, as edgy as Roenick's psyche; it favors obsessive-compulsive tracking shots and some Dolby rumblings that make the theater shudder like a wooden roller coaster. He gooses the actors to high agitation, except Fishburne, who remains Clyde Cool throughout. Indeed, it seems as if Fishburne is the only member of the company to have learned from the original...
...campus’s temporarily 24-hour library revealed a band of diehards hunched over their textbooks and laptops. Since Lamont—which sports plushly cushioned chairs and footstools—kicks students out at 12:45 a.m., the crowd was forced to settle for the wooden straight-backed chairs of Cabot...
Across the Nicobars, the International Red Cross estimates a death toll of 30,000 out of a population of 50,000. Meghna Rajsekhar, 13, saw the ocean swallow her mother and father, and after floating at sea for two days on a wooden door, she washed up on a Car Nicobar beach that was swarming with snakes. Newspapers wrote of refugees in Great Nicobar fending off crocodiles as they trekked through the jungle in search of water. For Aisha Majid, the tribal leader of Nancowry, an island filled with the homeless, the government's actions make no sense. She asks...
...fight in a stand of bamboo,” for instance, but often blends the natural with the dangerous more than the genre necessitates. In one memorable scene, the two main characters are saved from a marauding band of soldiers when an unknown, hidden presence kills their foes using wooden daggers. This shows the landscape’s danger despite its beauty, a theme that echoes Zhang’s deadly shirtsleeves...