Book review: Dark pasts, uncertain futures
"A Good Place for the Night" by Savyon Liebrecht; transla...
By Savyon Liebrecht; translated by Sondra Silverston
Reviewed by David Hellman
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PERSEA BOOKS; 247 Pages; $14 PAPERBACK The story "Tel Aviv" has a woman
stalking the leader of a Bauhaus architecture tour in the city because
she suspects he is having an affair with her husband. As in many of the
other stories, the narrator moves back and forth in time, in this
instance to illustrate the close and long-term relationship she has had
with her husband since childhood. As the truth of her life becomes
clear, she indirectly confronts her husband and proposes a compromise
that will perpetuate the falsehoods and the distorted fidelity they have
always lived with.
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/18/RVGQSG4U4B1.DTL&type=books
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East German watchmakers revive luxury tradition
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"They are really very beautiful watches," says Christian Pfeiffer-Belli,
editor of specialist publication Klassik Uhren.
The two firms' success has encouraged others, such as Nomos, a new
company making less expensive watches with a distinctive look
reminiscent of the 1920s Bauhaus school of design.
"(Glashuette) is a very, very German name," Pfeiffer-Belli says. "And it
works very well in Germany because there are a lot of people who know
Lange as a great brand from earlier times."
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http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&storyID=2005-12-21T081801Z_01_NOA129807_RTRUKOC_0_FEATURE-WATCHMAKERS.xml
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| and cons, cons everywhere! cons get into modern
| architecture! bauhaus, Tel Aviv the new Jerusalem
Pilgrimage time-outs in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv is quite the comeback kid. UNESCO recently named the "White
City" a World Heritage site for its 1930s Bauhaus architecture. Both
business travellers and tourists — kept away by the intifada — are
scrambling to book previously empty hotel rooms. And, while summer is
usually the high season, the city's balmy winter temperatures draw
plenty of visitors looking for a bout of sun worshipping and shopping
between Christmas and Hanukkah pilgrimages to Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051216.winsider1217/BNStory/specialTravel/