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...performance of Strauss's shocker that came straight from the libido. For its new Salome under the sophisticated hand of Director Götz Friedrich, 32, the Komische Oper signaled its intentions by tacking up a "No One Under 18 Admitted" sign at the box office. With Czech Soprano Jarmila Rudolfova as Salome, Friedrich had a tiger to inspire him and he made the most of it; after researching such questions as the typical nighttime temperature in Judea in A.D. 30 to ensure authenticity, Friedrich decided the production should be, above all, sexy. It was. Backlighting stripped Rudolfova...
...physics changed. Vague terms such as "strangeness" cropped up to describe mathematically the way these new unstable particles differ from the old familiar ones. Some of the new particles were called "resonances," a term that describes familiar particles temporarily bound together. "There was a sense of uneasiness," says Czech-born California Physicist Harold Ticho. "We were turning up a mess of disconnected beasts which seemed to have no relation to any theory of nature...
...currency. A changing world usually means good times for Bank Note, but change has also dealt the company some severe blows. It lost its biggest customer for paper money when China went Communist in 1949, lost another big customer two years ago when Cuba's Castro switched to Czech-printed money. Bank Note does not think much of Cuba's new currency. "It's not secure, not secure at all," sniffs Colclough...
...that other negotiations will work out." There is little doubt as to who would be the subjects of other negotiations: Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. a political refugee in the U.S. legation at Budapest since the 1956 uprising, and Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague, who was seized by Czech Communists in 1950, has not been heard from since...
...marvelously attenuated adolescent boy clutches a four-leaf clover and gazes imploringly at the ceiling; he is called The Wish. The pieces are both funny and sad, a bit crude and yet full of vitality. On view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery, they are the work of the Czech-born sculptor Ludvik Durchanek: a rough-hewn talent of considerable versatility and force...