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...return, he was greeted by Czech crowds chanting "Bata! Bata! Bata!" Local officials gave the Canadian industrialist a haunting tour of the giant factory that his late father had built. Dilapidated, the aging shoe factory still turns out footwear on the machinery installed by his family nearly a half-century ago. Bata plans to renovate the factory as part of a joint venture. Forty years after being driven out of his country, Thomas Bata is a returning hero...
...live action is more your style, Brattle Street's Loeb Drama Center, home of the American Repertory Theatre during the academic year, promises expert performances from the student Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater. The company plans and August production of Czech President Vaclav Havel's "The Increased Difficulty of Concentration...
...overseers extended an offer to Czech President and playwrite Vaclav Havel to speak alongside Kohl, in what would have been a symbolic representation of both Eastern and Western Europe, FitzGerald says...
...Bugajski's The Interrogation, a harrowing babes-in-bondage film that the Poles had suppressed since 1982. The jury should also have honored Karel Kachyna's The Ear, made in 1970 and just now released. This stark, dark comedy, depicting one long night in the life of a bickering Czech couple who find their house bugged, plays like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf as written by Franz Kafka...
Dienstbier quoted Czech President Vaclav Havel's belief that "America can best help [Czechoslovakia] by helping the USSR...