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Sonbert's most serious work, The Cup and the Lip (1986) focuses on the forces behind demonstrations and mass gatherings in the modern world. The film opens with a scene from a military parade in Budapest during the Chernobyl disaster and ends with Sandra Day O'Connor's visit to a San Francisco rally the week after the Supreme Court ruled on the sodomy...
...paintings. His aim, as far as possible, was to concentrate on narrative painting -- stories from the Bible, mainly -- instead of the static images of the Madonna in which Sienese painting abounds. Because these narratives are usually found in the small scenes around compound altarpieces, they have been scattered from Budapest to Melbourne in what museums euphemistically call the "dispersal" -- the dismemberment by thieves and dealers -- of big church paintings...
...magnified. Good food and decent hotels may require some luck and homework to find. But to many, all the inconveniences of time and place seem a small price to pay for the chance to wander through Prague's heart-stopping streets on a quiet afternoon or linger in Budapest's Hungarian National Museum without being jostled by the crowds...
...latest joke making the rounds in Budapest carries a bitter truth. "Who will win the soccer championship this season?" Answer: "The team with the fewest players in jail." But to most Hungarians, there is nothing very funny about the soccer bribery scheme that by last week had developed into one of the biggest sports scandals ever to touch the East bloc...
Karossy contacted Citicorp, which has a branchin Budapest, and asked for financial support. Sheeventually signed a contract agreeing to workthree years for the bank after getting her MBA, inreturn for the necessary half of her tuition...