Word: weimar
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...epics means that fewer experimental movies are being made. The state's once sassy underground press has become superfluous, even insipid. Rock groups like Eagles, who once celebrated the ambience of their adopted state with songs like Peaceful Easy Feeling, now look on California as a latter-day Weimar Republic inhabited by ghoulish sybarites and double-knit hucksters...
...authority on criminal law and a courageous liberal in Russia's first, shortlived Parliament. He was killed in 1922 in Berlin, while preventing an assassination at a political meeting. After all the articles and interviews published about Nabokov, it is no longer news that as a refugee in Weimar Berlin, he began his brilliant literary career while earning his living by teaching English and tennis. But he also supplemented his income as a movie extra and even wrote a film scenario titled The Love of a Dwarf. The unproduced script became the short story The Potato Elf, his first...
...teenager, Bergman, the son of a Lutheran minister, spent summers in Germany with the family of a minister who was a dedicated Nazi. In 1935 Bergman went with his hosts to a party rally in Weimar. Caught up in the frenzy that greeted Hitler's arrival, he shouted "Heil Hitler!" along with the rest. He admits: "I was a real little Nazi when I returned to Sweden after that summer, but the infatuation was short-lived. The period fascinates me; I knew I'd do a film about it some...
...part--she may be a virgin but after all she's been instructed in the arts of life (which Hero hasn't been) and when she sings "I'm lovely," she really is. But that voice ain't the voice of any virgin I ever heard; that's a Weimar cabaret voice, smokey Blue Angel sultriness...
History evinces itself in the chronological arrangement: the ominous shadows behind the always-smiling caricatures of the Weimar period tell a good deal about what it was like to make prints in Germany during the last century. But the show's sweep creates problems. The gems it contains seem to lack a setting. Go look at this as though turning pages of the books from which most of these came,--and turn slowly...