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DIED. TIBOR KALMAN, 49, Budapest-born guru of progressive graphic design; of non-Hodgkins lymphoma; near San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through his firm M&Co. and his role as editor in chief of Benetton's socio-political house magazine Colors, Kalman promoted social activism as much as innovative, anti-Establishment design techniques. (See Eulogy...
After flying into Budapest, they will have to drive at least six hours to Belgrade, though it is likely that the trip will take have been bombed. When they get to the border there is also a chance that Stokes, an American, will be denied entrance to the country...
...second half of the recital comprised Perahia's magisterial reading of the Schubert C Minor Sonata D. 958. This interpretation was worlds away from the famous hair-sizzling live recording made in Budapest in 1958 (coincidence?) by Sviatoslav Richter-The tempi were less "hell" and more "high water." The beginning of the first movement, phrased to remind us of Beethoven's 32 variations in the same key was the first of many well-executed musical decisions that kept the audience rapt for the entirety of this very long sonata. Peheria was rewarded with three encores...
Born to prosperous Jewish parents in Budapest in 1903, Von Neumann was a child prodigy who could divide eight-digit numbers in his head by age six, learned calculus by age eight and amused his parents' friends by glancing at a phone book and reciting whole pages verbatim. Mathematics quickly became the focus of his studies, culminating in a Ph.D. from the University of Budapest...
...said, and blew a cartoon explosion through his teeth. Over Wednesday afternoon, as the first reports of NATO attacks filtered in, the city became a menacing presence, its attitude towards the NATO action impossible to pin down. There were fears of reprisal against Americans from Serbian neighborhoods in Budapest. I received the call from Budapest that evening. My friend was leaving the country for France...