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...German psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing publishes Psychopathia Sexualis, which coins the terms “sadism” and “masochism” and describes sexual disorders in which acts of cruelty and bodily punishment become sexually pleasurable. At this time, the two “sexual anomalies” are understood as distinct: sadism involves finding sexual pleasure in inflicting pain on another person; masochism involves ceding control of a sexual situation to another person...
...Steffi Graf, contributed their favorite roast-turkey recipe. "Stef and I really enjoy spending time together in the kitchen," he says. Are they as competitive there as they are on the court? "Let's just say we each pick an area of focus," he says diplomatically. "I leave the German stuff to her." --By Lisa McLaughlin
People in the German border town of Passau probably don't think of themselves as champions of the euro. Yet this August they scored a victory for Europe's single currency. On a warm Friday afternoon, about 500 people drank beer, ate bratwurst and--for almost five hours--blocked a road into neighboring Austria. Their target: the high price of gasoline in Germany, which, thanks to taxes, is about 20% more expensive than in Austria. Every day an estimated 2,000 German motorists fill up at a BP station across the border in Austria--at the expense...
...nine months of this year. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN? Ostalgia Calls Trabant fan Graham Goodall is seeking a new home for 40 of the 49 cars he keeps in the grounds of his home in a picturesque village in northern England. Goodall said he fell in love with the East German icon - whose engine has only five moving parts - on a 1987 visit to Berlin, and it would be a "disaster" to split up the collection. But after neighbors labeled the vehicles - which are in various states of disrepair - an "eyesore," a local court ordered them to be removed or destroyed...
...answer session following the screening. “There was no war, and there was a stable economy.” It was in the open cultural atmosphere at the time that Tsai was first exposed to the European art-films of the Nouvelle Vague and the New German Cinema, to the great auteurs Robert Bresson, Francois Truffaut and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would heavily influence his later film-making...