Example sentences for: rudolf

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  • Scars are not all that's exposed: Flipping through The Sixties you'll catch glimpses of Warhol superstar Viva's pregnant belly and fashion model Veruschka's breasts, as well as (among others) dancer Rudolf Nureyev's penis (impressive, flaccid) and satirist Paul Krassner's (less so, half-erect).

  • The Sunday Telegraph 's spy scoops: The KGB ran a "dirty tricks" campaign to persuade Americans that President John F. Kennedy was murdered by the CIA; the agency planned to maim Russian ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Natalya Makarova for defecting to the West; it launched a series of plots against Pope John Paul II; and it planted KGB agents as assistants to three successive secretaries-general of the United Nations.

  • The Pita Maha school of young Western-influenced artists emerged (also influenced by the Dutch pastel-ist, Rudolf Bonnet), putting Ubud on the world map of contemporary art.

  • In a passage about the mayor's dictatorial, brutal style, the text calls him "Rudolf."

  • It was a bit of late Romanticism, which flourished in English literature, then in German cinema, and reached an apogee of acceptance in 1973 in a stylish volume by Angelo Maria Ripellino called, after a phrase by André Breton, Magic Prague . But the mystic interpretation is exactly what Peter Demetz, a professor of German at Yale, wishes to counter in his own Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes From the Life of a European City . Demetz's Prague is the city of the late-16 th century Emperor Rudolf II (a scientific-minded man, though he did go mad at the end) and the 19 th century logician Bernard Bolzano.


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