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...Wolbach Library, Art pulls out the sky charts. He flips quickly through a brightly-colored one put out by the Czech Academy of Sciences--"This is mainly just a teaching tool"--pointing out the galactic equator, describing the meaning of different colors. The constellations are carefully boxed off, charting a sky far from anthropomorphic. Art lingers a bit more over a photographic atlas. "These are good pictures," he says, nodding approval. He describes problems people have mapping the sky. "Our galaxy is like a record--really thin and flat--so when you look through the record, you get what...
...dirty grey of Cleveland's heavily industrialized flats; the Cuyahoga River, which cuts across the district, caught on fire several years ago because it was so heavily polluted with industrial waste. The population of this lower-middle-class urban stretch is predominantly of eastern European ancestry--Polish, German, Czech, Hungarian, plus some Irish and Italians--and roughly 75 per cent Catholic...
...well aware of the effect this might have on the foreign delegations-the government last week stocked up stores and markets with huge quantities of normally scarce merchandise. As a result, Muscovites, in a near stampede, charged through shops buying up such scarce delicacies as lettuce, mushrooms, chickens, Czech glassware, Hungarian shoes and Indian soap...
...Czech Director Jan Kadar (The Shop on Main Street) handles all his vignettes dryly, distantly, without the slightest excess of emotion. Normally such discipline, especially in an age of over wrought movies, would be a matter for applause. In a film that is so predictable, however, a little excess is called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant...
...French eyes, Frantisek Kupka was, for the last 20 years of his life, an ir relevance: a withered Czech emigre, with sunken cheeks and a disproportionately large appetite for food, who lived in a small cluttered house in the Paris suburb of Puteaux, surrounded by old abstract paintings that nobody wanted...