Word: memorabilia
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...bayonet stabs, then emerged blood splattered to a press corps stunned, but not too stunned to keep the TV cameras rolling. It led to West Germany, where a couple of magazines, Bunte Illustrierte and Stern, tried to auction off to other media bits of Mengele, photographs, letters and other memorabilia. Finally, it led to Beirut, where during 17 days of astonishing symbiosis, television and terrorists co- produced -- there is no better word -- a hostage drama...
George Stevens Jr. has assembled a feature-length portrait of his father from interviews, film clips and family memorabilia (including some riveting home- away-from-home movies of the Allied landing in Normandy, which Senior filmed at the request of General Eisenhower). The chronicler has his father's sharp eye and leisurely sense of pace; he takes his time telling a story that means much to him. The perspective is both judicious and adoring, as if he were young Brandon de Wilde to his father's Shane. The old pro taught the boy how to shoot and, as this moving...
...gentle old woman's affection. Looking into its beady eye, Braithwaite suddenly feels close to his own idol. But, he ruminates, "the writer's voice--what makes you think it can be located that easily?" Sure enough, in Croisset, the village where Flaubert lived, there is another collection of memorabilia, and, yes, another parrot. Undeterred, the narrator sets out to determine which little bundle of feathers is authentic...
...Bach's memorabilia are largely confined to his scores, letters and other documents. There is only one authenticated portrait of the man, and his birthplace on the Lutherstrasse in the hilly Thuringian mining town of Eisenach was destroyed long ago. In Weimar, the cultivated city of Goethe and Schiller, where Bach spent almost a month in jail for the crime of wanting to change jobs, there is only a plaque to mark the spot on which the family home stood. In Cothen, where Bach worked for the music-loving Prince Leopold from 1717 to 1723, producing among other masterworks...
...Nazi Fuhrer's diaries, written between 1932 and 1945. The diaries, Heidemann said, were rescued by farmers after a plane carrying Hitler's personal effects crashed near Dresden in the last days of World War II. Although the flamboyant Heidemann was known to be excessively preoccupied with Nazi memorabilia, his superior, Thomas Walde, took Heidemann's supposed find very seriously. Presumably in order to minimize the risk of a leak, Walde bypassed Stern's top editors and took the information upstairs to Wilfried Sorge, assistant director of Gruner & Jahr, and Jan Hensmann, a member of the board. In the months...