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LOVES OF A BLONDE. Czech Director Milos Forman, 34, explores the pleasures and pains of youth in this touching comedy about a small-town girl and her brief encounter with a dashing young hipster from Prague...
...Prague the travelers had lunch with Professor Ota Sik, architect of the new Czech economic reforms (see THE WORLD). Sik was an articulate spokesman for the new ideas in Communist economics. He criticized at length the orthodox thinking that had shackled the Czech economy and held down the standard of living. For three hours, the group listened and questioned Sik as he expounded his theories and developed his plans for the future of his country. Before the lecture, Sik examined the transistorized simultaneous-translating unit TIME had provided and exclaimed: "Your American technology is marvelous...
Soviet reinvestment-on building the machine tools (and weapons) that the Soviets needed. Stalinist-minded Czech central planners (called "oxen" by many Czechs) blithely pumped billions of kroner in subsidies into moribund enterprises in order to make their master plans come true on paper. By 1963, Czech economic growth, which had been booming at 8% in 1949, had skidded to nothing-indeed, it actually was in decline, an unheard-of event in a planned economy...
LOVES OF A BLONDE. Slight but abrim with humorous insights, this delightful Czech comedy observes what happens when a pudding-faced pretty from a small town succumbs to a callow young piano player and follows him to his petit-bourgeois home in Prague...
German expressionists, too, are supposed to be historical relics these days. Take Oskar Kokoschka, for example. In pre-World War I Prague, they gleefully translated his Czech name literally-"bad weed." Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination helped spark World War I, once growled, "That fellow's bones ought to be broken." He wrote plays that people called mad, but mainly he painted pictures that few people liked. Hitler unhesitatingly banned him as "degenerate." Kokoschka cheerfully outlived them all; today, at 80, he is more generative than ever...