Word: dagmar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT jetted into Prague last week, aides were mum about her plans for a meeting with her cousin, DAGMAR SIMOVA, the woman who told the world that Albright's family had Jewish origins. Feelings between the two sides of the family are--well, somewhat strained. At the American embassy in Prague, word was that a visit was tentative. In the end, Albright decided it was best to repair the breach. The two women had a private breakfast in Albright's hotel the morning after she arrived, and later, when Czech President VACLAV HAVEL presented Albright...
...great records. At the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the winning time for the women's 400 free was 4:07.18, nearly 4 sec. slower than Janet's time at Seoul. And the winner was not Janet Evans. She came in second in 4:07.37, behind a relatively unknown German, Dagmar Hase...
...exception is Dagmar Demming's Supplies for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (1994). Demming installs a series of ordinary soap dishes throughout the exhibition space, each holding a bar of fossilized soap. According to the program, "They symbolize the constant need to cleanse away guilt," At the same time, they inevitably suggest the bars of soap handed to the prisoners of Auschwitz as they were herded into the gas chamber "showers." It is unnecessary to analyze Demming's installment in order to feel its effect...
Coupland's protagonists are three refugees from our media-dominated (and therefore boomer-defined) society. They live on the edge of the desert near Palm Springs, where "the rich people pay the poor people to cut the thorns from their cactuses." Andy Palmer, Dagmar Belling-hausen and Claire Baxter are all members of Generation X--the generation without cause and without direction...