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That made the story a particularly wrenching drama. A Czech government official promised trouble if the children were not awarded to the mother. The staunch Yucaipa community felt strongly that they should stay. Three weeks ago, when California State Superior Court Judge Don Turner started hearing testimony in the case, angry Czech refugees demonstrated outside the court, demanding that the children be allowed to remain in the U.S. The townspeople had held rallies, raffles, recycling drives and Tupperware parties to raise $3,800 to pay for the expensive legal maneuvers they hoped would keep the children here...
Intimate Lighting, first feature film (in Czech with subtitles) by Ivan Passer, director of Born to Win. A comedy. 8:30, Fri., Chan. 2. And again, 10, Sat., Chan...
...even as the Peking summit progressed. One Moscow newscast began with a few minutes of video tape of Nixon and Chou in Peking, then cut to footage of an attack on a Viet Nam village by U.S. planes. Other East-bloc capitals followed Moscow's lead. The Czech party paper Rudé Pràvo snarled that both the U.S. and China were obviously "willing to ally themselves with the devil...
...giant slalom. But totally unexpected was the performance of Wojciech Fortuna, a 19-year-old Pole who leaped out of nowhere to win the 90-meter ski jump. The young U.S. hockey team, sparked by the acrobatic saves of Goalie Mike Curran. upset the strong Czech team 5-1 and then moved into contention for a medal. In women's figure skating, buxom Beatrix Schuba of Austria built up such a commanding lead in the school figures, the technical half of the event, that her competent but dull performance in freestyle skating did not deter her from winning...
...Boston without surplus discussion or playing-time: it entered the Harvey chain, but played the Orson Welles in a print dubbed with bad American gangsterese. Photographed by Raoul Coutard, written by Jorge Semprun, directed by Costa-Gavras (there's talent in those credits), this chronicle of the Czech Slansky trials resonates with modern fears of industrial slates, of resulting dehumanization, and the ascendance of politics over morals. But it's no sermon: the bulk of the film is anti-melodramatic, a complex historical document, and terror comes through to both mind and gut because...