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Hemingway Gets into the Ring
Herbert Kuhner
Here’s Hemingway the pugilist: “I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. De Maupassant. I’ve fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody’s going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless […]
Posted: July 24th, 2010 under Polemics, Text.
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Sharron Squeezes and Breaks
Sharron Angle, Tea-Party Republican candidate for the Nevada Senate, wants to outlaw abortion universally, even in cases of rape and incest. She insists that a young girl raped by her father should know that “two wrongs don’t make a right. “Much good can come from a horrific situation like that,” Angle added. ‘Lemons can be […]
Posted: July 14th, 2010 under Polemics, Text, Aktuell.
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A Trip Down Memory Lane
Herbert Kuhner
Herr Kuhner, if you do not withdraw your case, we will send the public health officer.
- Anonymous caller
Martin Luksan suggested I tackle this again, so here goes!
Yes, this is a trip down Memory Lane, but there is nothing sentimental about it. These were not the good old days. There’s no dabbing at the edges […]
Posted: July 5th, 2010 under Polemics, Text, Aktuell, Dossier, Stories, Hypocrisy.
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The Lesson
Herbert Kuhner
The survivors,
after having been brutalized
and witnessing decimation,
learned the lesson
of humanity,
banished hatred from their hearts
and became kind, gentle and loving.
“Those who think that Jews will tread the moral high ground because they have suffered and experienced persecution are dead wrong. The main lesson of the Holocaust for Israelis is never again to go to the […]
Posted: June 25th, 2010 under Text, Aktuell.
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Putting on Weight
Herbert Kuhner
There’s a Hollywood myth about Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman, Hofmann is reputed to have gone without sleep for a whole weekend in order to be convincing in a scene in Marathon Man. Olivier is alleged to have suggested to the dishevelled Hofmann: “Why don’t you try acting, dear boy?!”
Robert Di Niro, Silvester […]
Posted: June 12th, 2010 under Polemics, Text, Film.
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The Big Night and Art in General
Herbert Kuhner
The Big Night, directed by Stanley Tucci is about the art of cooking and art in general.
Time is the Fifties´. Primo and Secundo have left Italy for New Jersey and have established the Paradise Restaurant.
Primo is a culinary master who makes no compromises and Secundo, played by Tucci, is the front-man who takes care […]
Posted: June 4th, 2010 under Text, Stories.
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Jan Karski Meets with Roosevelt and Frankfurter
Herbert Kuhner
“Jan Karski, a member of the Polish underground, met with President Franklyn D. Roosevelt and Supreme Justice Felix Frankfurter, informing them of the Holocaust.On. July 28, 1943.
“With Roosevelt he raised the matter of providing hard currency to buy Jews out of the ghetto.
“The President rebuffed him: “No one will like to know that we […]
Posted: May 12th, 2010 under Text, Aktuell, Materialien.
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