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...condemn them, but they are hardly virtuous." In the tragicomic Pupendo, which has yet to be released internationally, Hrebejk sets out to excavate the shameless opportunism and self-censorship of Prague in the waning days of communism. Named after a popular children's game, Pupendo has two protagonists. Bedrich Mára, a well-known Czech sculptor expelled from the Prague art academy for political reasons, is a staunch anticommunist who boycotts elections, and a drunk who supplements his income through insurance fraud. Míla Brecka, on the other hand, is a school principal who clearly profits from...
...walked past the American embassy, and I said to Bill, 'Someday you will come back as ambassador or cultural attache,' and I laughed. Bill looked at me very seriously and said he well might." -- BEDRICH KOPOLD, FATHER OF A CLASSMATE OF BILL CLINTON'S AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND CLINTON'S HOST DURING A VISIT TO PRAGUE...
...August 1968, ten days after Soviet tanks crunched into Czechoslovakia, an electrician named Bedrich Gabriel fled the country with his two young children, leaving his wife behind. He settled with his mother in Yucaipa, Calif., 15 miles from San Bernardino. It seemed a poignant displacement of the cold war, nothing more. Gabriel's wife Vlasta, a component designer for a construction firm, opted to stay in Czechoslovakia, where she won a divorce and legal custody of the children. When Bedrich died in 1969, Vlasta, who had remarried, decided to ask U.S. courts for custody of the kids. The father...
First Round. The divorce and decree theoretically awarding Vlasta custody were granted in October of 1968, and she later remarried. There the matter would probably have rested had not Bedrich died, since it is unlikely that a U.S. court would have ordered the children home while their father was living. But his death left the children wards of the court, since his mother was unable to care for them...
During Gabriel's illness, the children-named after their parents, Bedrich, now 7, and Vlasta, 8-were often cared for by a local couple, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith. Smith, an Air Force Reserve sergeant, and his wife, a nurse's aide, eagerly added them to their own household of three children upon Gabriel's death and filed suit for legal guardianship. The couple's claim was based on Gabriel's deathbed wish that the children remain in the U.S., and also on the argument that they were too Americanized to return home. Vlasta pressed...