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ADOLF HITLER 1938 Drawing his shadowy curtain across Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUTTING A FACE ON HISTORY | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...process of trying to replace the Iron Curtain with a picture window," Shelton said...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chairman Faces Forum | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Located in Hakuba, 30 miles from Nagano, the ski-jumping venue expects crowds of 36,000 to cheer for a home team that has serious hopes of gold. A curtain hung on the poles at left will protect jumpers from tricky winds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEBRUARY IN NAGANO: A TRAVELER'S GUIDE | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Even before the curtain went up, the Boston Conservatory's "Die Fledermaus," at the Emerson Majestic, offered a visual treat. Because of the lighting in the orchestra pit, conductor Ronald Feldman's shadow covered the entire right wall of the theater. As the overture progressed, one sensed with delight the contrast between the unintentionally sinister apparition and the music's light waltzes...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ringing in the New Year With Booze, Babes and Bats | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...breezy autumn night, a dozen members of the Wednesday Book Club gathered in the living room of Dorothy Peterson, a farm widow whose house sits behind a curtain of corn on the outskirts of town. These well-traveled women, accomplished in fields from accounting to medicine, love Wilmington and swear it hasn't lost its small-town flavor. But as they talk, their effusions give way to worry about crime, development, strangers in their midst. Each woman carries a fantasy Wilmington in her mind and sees only the problems that intrude on that ideal. They make it clear that Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ESCAPE | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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