Word: flicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name refers to Friedrich Flick Industrieverwaltung KGaA, a Düsseldorf-based firm that is one of the world's largest industrial holding companies. A $3.4 billion concern, Flick has substantial interests in steel, chemicals and banking. It is now run by Friedrich Karl Flick, 57, the youngest and only living son of Friedrich Flick, who began the business...
...political unity and on Bonn's views of East-West relations. But that does not fully explain the Chancellor's eagerness to become the first major West European leader to visit the President since his reelection. Another Kohl motive: to get a breather from the so-called Flick affair, a 33-month probe into alleged political payoffs that has become one of the worst political scandals in West German history...
...Bonn, the Flick group is known also for dispensing large amounts of under-the-table money to members of West Germany's established political parties. In all, the company is said to have paid some $8.3 million during the 1970s, some of it allegedly in return for political favors. The disclosure of those alleged payments, which began after a tax-related seizure of company documents in 1981, is now reverberating through the West German political system, seriously undermining the effectiveness and perhaps the future of Kohl's coalition government...
...toll of Flick victims has been growing steadily. In June, Kohl's Economics Minister, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, resigned amid accusations that he had accepted $50,000 in 1979 and 1980 in exchange for allowing the Flick firm generous tax writeoffs. Lambsdorff faces trial next January on criminal charges. In October, Rainer Barzel, president of the Bundestag and a senior member of Kohl's Christian Democratic Union, also stepped down. The weekly Der Spiegel published a Bonn prosecutor's report that the Flick company had paid more than $700,000 to a Frankfurt law firm, and that...
Sandrine Bonnaire has a peasant sensuality; naked, she looks like the figurehead on a pirate ship. The camera closes in on the stolid planes of her face, and voilà a deep dimple appears incongruously in her left cheek. From wanton to elfin in the flick of an adolescent whim-such are the compelling mysteries of personality. Bonnaire stars as the teen-age Suzanne in this doggedly unsentimental French film from Writer-Director Maurice Pialat. Suzanne's family has stayed together by corseting all hostilities. Then she discovers the power of her own erotic impulse. Overnight, Daddy...