Word: dietrich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neither aesthetics nor safety caused grave problems. The library persuaded Paul Dietrich, the architect who designed the station itself, to design the bookcase at no cost. The library then paid for the materials and labor needed to build the shelves. "The designer knew what he was doing," said Carbona. "He put the shelf in the right location, and it looks beautiful...
...Fool There Was (based on Rudyard Kipling's poem The Vampire), the American movie screen has been pocked with predatory femmes fatales. What made them evil? Usually, that they liked sex as much as men did, if they were decadent Europeans played by the likes of Garbo and Dietrich. Or, if they were homegrown, that sexual frustration twisted them into satanic schemers...
With the pastiche ideology of post-modernism the theater has lost the appetite for the strong emotions and extravagant gestures that once were associated with the word "dramatic." Somehow, a cheesy melodrama like Dietrich's Dishonoured or Bogart's Maltese Falcon seems truer to the human heart than any new work I've seen on a stage in years. The theater, always a comfortable haven for dry intellectuals, may well have hypertrophied to the point that it is just an expensive substitute for The David Letterman Show...
...Dietrich intends to concentrate in the areas of history, American religious thought and economics to aid in his coverage of national security issues, and of the new religious currents he sees developing in the Northwest...
...also want to use the year to just plug some holes in my education," said Dietrich. "The additional education will be of value in my future work--it will show up in my stories and how I do them...