berlin wall, twenty years on

So I was six years old, twenty years ago, and I was living on an army base in Germany. Or rather I should say West Germany. I remember sitting at home watching cartoons with my brother when my dad came home and told us to switch to the German stations. (Our TV had a... thingy, setting, that could be switched to watch the Armed Forces Network, in English, or any of the German ...

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The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today

It was a great day in history. A huge number of people who had been living under Communist tyranny are free today, and free to travel. The Berlin Wall illustrated an important principle and an important right. The principle is that when a government becomes oppressive enough, it is not enough to control the citizens and suppress dissent. It also has to prevent people from escaping it's reach,...

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three years late to the party

...do that!! But that's okay. Because taken all together, this story was exactly as awful and awesome as I remember fairy tales being when I was a kid. Considering I watched it on the little TV in the living room while a large puppy galloped over me dripping peanutbutter slobbers on me, I have to wonder if it might not have been too much (for easily overloaded me) in the theater. I'm glad I didn't ...

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Living In A Man's World: The Garage

... look like Frankenstein's lab. Our neighbors have complained to him for years about it, but he ignores them and goes on with his life. ... are well accustomed to getting their hands dirty. They each took four years of auto tech at the high school, which goes above and ..., the single item that seems to hold everything together. And as the years go by, and my brothers take on project after project, the ...

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20 years later

... tomorrow Berliners will celebrate 20 years after the fall of the ... eastern or western side, were living quite a different life, but ... country, and remain unchanged for years? I, personally, can hardly believe...shops in the country, for years without change (however, the shops...owners. 9. Universal conscription , 2 years. In my time (I was...symbol of communist industry), 2 years for a Wartburg , 3 for...

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Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never been slapped by someone's mother.

...I'm sitting here, in my parents house, very dissatisfied with the state of things. Living in this house for too many years longer than I should have has retarded my development as a person, and I ...'m not a lone. And since that's been the case for, oh, a few years now, I think I'm sufficiently levelled-up in self-reliance for my own place....

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Living Legend: A Sondheim interview.

...and theatrical collaborations over the past 50 years. He transformed the way words go with...? Who does the musicals from 100 years ago? They are ridiculous. The songs are...a cycle of public conversations started two years ago with The New York Times ... of feeling lesser." More than 60 years after penning his first lyrics, Sondheim ... had been writing musicals for 25 years, Sondheim did not make his mark ...

Tags: stephen sondheim bway on the big screen *merrily we roll along broadway flops *into the woods

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Living Skeleton

Some times it takes 35 or more years to find the source of a picture thats haunted you since childhood. My Mom got me this illustrated history of horror films back in the early 1970's an in it was a picture of a fightened girl on the deck of ship terrorized by an odd skeleton. Its an odd picture ( http://www.trashpalace.com/images/LivingSkeletonDVDR2.jpg ) that made me want to know what the film ...

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Fic: Five Hundred years Gone - torchwod/being human

... they deserved more than any other living soul on this inhuman planet. ...Torchwood could spend in a thousand years." "Okay, so you buy the land...wasn't it? Lived several hundred years and counting. Truth to tell, ... birthday, he had turned 525 years old. Considering he had not ... a torrid embrace. Once, many years past, he would have been ... that it? After five hundred years, you still want that?" "What ...

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Fic: Five Hundred Years Gone - Torchwood/Being Human

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