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...rise of Peter Knight is an arc defined by Gore. Shortly after directing Gore's failed 1988 presidential bid, Knight decided to try his luck at the influence game. Thanks to an old friend and fellow Cornell alumnus, Ken Levine, he landed in 1991 at the Washington firm Wunder, Diefenderfer, Cannon & Thelen. Several partners in the firm, recognizing that Knight's tie to Gore had potential, kicked in about $7,000 each of their own money, in addition to what the firm was offering, to help bring Knight in. Until mid-1992, though, Knight was "negative" at the firm...
TITLE: DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE...
Today, however, he is best remembered as a composer of colorful, sweeping Hollywood film scores such as Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. What happened? A new recording of the 1927 opera that Korngold always considered his masterpiece, Das Wunder der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane), offers some clues...
...countess jaunted about in her sole remaining Horch-Pullman, her feudal subjects tried to gladden her heart by tugging their forelocks and putting on displays of their simple country pastimes, such as munching sausages, guzzling beer and blowing flugelhorns. To no avail. The countess subliminally yearned for some wunder-myth of a man who would kiss the castle back to life-with money-so that she could re-enter it in grand style and give way to those mad, scandalous fantasies that constantly invaded her mind, such as gorging on imported strawberries...
...Erhard is Chancellor, and with some of the Wunder gone out of the Wirtschaft, he has turned toward the kind of planning that he used to say could cause only "friction and disturbance." It still amounts to far less control than the French system, which has government-set production goals, but it is much more than the Erhard of only a few years ago would have tolerated...