Word: budapester
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...came to Budapest to get away from my life as I knew it in the Northeast Corridor, to remind myself that the world was bigger than New York and Boston, that somewhere people were speaking other languages and, maybe, thinking different thoughts. And Eastern Europe is different...
...lungs will be in worse shape when I cross the Atlantic again, but so will my arteries. On my second night in Budapest, I digested a traditional Hungarian meal of cabbage stuffed with meat accompanied by a small black sausage, a slice of pork and a hunk of fat from an undetermined animal. The entire dish was sitting in deep red oil half-an-inch thick, and the cabbage was topped with sour cream...
...Eastern Europe's differences, it is of course not possible to escape American culture and companies. The main shopping street in Budapest, Vaci Utca, is home to McDonald's, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Dunkin' Donuts and Citibank. In fact, McDonald's has 22 locations in the city, and the world's largest Burger King is here...
...thorough. Critics will question whether the U.S. should get more deeply involved in Europe. They will focus, properly, on the cost of expansion--$35 billion overall, according to the White House, vs. the $125 billion Congressional Budget Office estimate--and argue that defending London is one thing, but Budapest? Proponents of expansion will counter yes, Budapest, and cite the greater potential cost of not expanding. They will remember that the U.S. raced home too quickly from Europe after World War I and had to return, at much greater cost, to fight World War II. They will explain how enlargement will...
Halmi may not relish talking about show business, but he can't escape the fact that he is show business. His life is even something of a mini-series. Born in Budapest and married five times, he fought in the Hungarian resistance before moving in the 1950s to the U.S., where he worked as a LIFE magazine photographer and dabbled in race-car driving before turning to TV as a producer of wildlife documentaries...