Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German city of Dessau, a pupil of Painter Paul Klee saw him marching down the center of the sidewalk, absentmindedly keeping time to the music of a passing band. What he was pondering, explained Klee, was the rhythmic relationship between the music and the slabs of concrete passing beneath his feet. To illustrate, he drew a sketch: a stream of smoothly flowing lines set off against a series of thrusting rectangles. Klee, son of a musicologist and himself an accomplished violinist, long wavered between music and painting; throughout his life (he died in 1940) he kept seeing rhythmic parallels between...
...times, wincing, covering her eyes, wringing her hands and staving off newsmen: "I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to talk to anyone!" For the runs of six other girls, Penny's time stood. Then a clerk in a West German ski factory began...
...OFFER for a major interest in ailing Bavarian Motor Works, West Germany's seventh largest automaker, is under consideration. B.M.W., already licensed to produce G.E.'s J-79 jet engine, is slated to get a $100 million contract to build them for German air force's new Starfighter...
Into the West German mails this week went 3,500,000 copies of a 400-page catalogue that will set off a long-distance shopping spree in homes from Bremerhaven to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The catalogue is the latest and fattest from Frankfurt's Neckermann Mail Order House, offers Germans 5,500 items at prices as much as 40% lower than those of competing retail stores. This year, for the first time, the orders (averaging nearly 40,000 a day) will pour into a massive new steel and concrete headquarters now being taken over by the expanding firm. Built...
Rosemary (German). The true-life story of Rosie Nitribitt, a shabby little prostitute who eventually became one of the highest-priced women in West Germany. Bubbly champagne farce turns into solemn social comment...