Word: franz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Franz Kline: The Vital Gesture," which runs through March 2 at the Cincinnati Art Museum, is one of a lengthening list of distinguished exhibitions that will not be seen in New York City. No doubt, in one way, this only confirms that curators west of the Hudson can act without the writ of the Manhattan art world--no bad thing, considering some of the ways in which that writ has lately run. And yet for New York, it is a striking and rather ironic omission. Franz Kline (1910-62) is the only original member of the New York school whose...
Gilliam has called Brazil "Walter Mitty meets Franz Kafka" and describes its unique, post-Orwellian setting as "somewhere on the Los Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like...
...terrors of German romanticism. They are seen, by all but a tiny minority of Germans, as mad, bad and dangerous to know: frantic orphans of the fatherland, nut eaters, Nietzscheans, stargazers, communards, Spartacists, reciting overloud yeas to nature and nays to society. Among them are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Franz Marc, Emil Nolde and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, George Grosz and Otto...
...next two centuries of cometary science were relatively uneventful. In 1823 German Astronomer Johann Franz Encke, who calculated the orbit of a periodic comet that bears his name (it reappears every 3.3 years), insisted that the orbit of "his" comet could not be explained solely by gravity. He proposed that "ether," an invisible theoretical substance that at the time was believed to pervade space, exerted drag on the nucleus, slowing it down. After observing flares streaming from Comet Halley's surface in 1836, another German astronomer, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, conceived a more plausible concept, the fountain theory. Bessel proposed that...
...Nazi official whom Lanzmann interviews clandestinely at his home, reminding him of his responsibility as deputy director of the Warsaw ghetto, and filling in details as he interviews. "It was July 7, 1941? That's the first time I've relearned a date," says the small, white-haired Dr. Franz Grassler. "May I take notes? After all, it interests me too. So in July I was already there...