Word: franz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Economics Minister. But the opposition Social Democrats called for his resignation. Said Party Floor Leader Hans-Jochen Vogel: "An ordinary government employee would be suspended until the end of the proceedings." One of Kohl's concerns is that Lambsdorff's resignation would encourage hard-line Conservative Franz Josef Strauss, the maverick leader of the Christian Democrats' Bavarian-based sister party, to make a play for the Economics Minister's portfolio. Kohl will resist such a move. But if Strauss were to succeed, Bonn's centrist policies could begin to slant to the right...
Sarajevo, from the Turkish saray (palace), is a bustling mountain valley city (pop. 447,687) where world events have visited before. In 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary was assassinated there by a local student, precipitating World War I. The places where wars begin evidently have a limited appeal for tourists, since the airport felt no need for a modern landing strip until one was installed this year...
...Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony...
...this stage of the game I know it. I know there is no way out. You choose your prison, and I've tried to put mine in paradise." The room is neat and sparsely furnished. A worn book about Newark is at hand for reference, and a haunted Franz Kafka gazes from a prominently displayed photograph to remind the writer of paradise's alternative...
...chief of this crew is Michael Nouri, the soulful and streetwise Pygmalion of Flashdance. Nouri plays the wise and slightly mournful manager to understated perfection. His assistant, the underhanded pitching coach (Dennis Franz, another Hill Street veteran), teaches his charges the subtler aspects of the game: "Your spitball isn't named exactly right. You could use your Vaseline, your oils, your earwax, or what I think is primo, the gooey white kind of spit that conies after drinking a lotta milk." Later, when an umpire spies a foreign substance on the ball, the freshly instructed young pitcher (Perry Lang...