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...only structure to the day was the meal schedule: breakfast at 7:30 a.m., lunch at noon and dinner at the faintly ridiculous time of 5:30 p.m. The cook was an ebullient, roly-poly Czech named Victor, who had had a previous career as a lounge singer in the U. S. The cuisine was the only category in which the Ingrid Oldendorff failed to match the standard of the cruise ships I've sailed with: the meals were ample, well cooked and tasty enough but monotonous, with an emphasis on meat and potatoes and garnished alternately by pickles...
...suicide note. "I feel as though I don't belong in this era." He concluded that a spectacular suicide was the only way to get "people to search their consciences and try to lessen the evil they commit every day." After parts of the note were published in the Czech media, Roman Másl read it and "his eyes were glowing when he told me about it," says Lucie Hlavínová, his confidante and schoolmate. "He admired what he did." And then he copied it. Late in the evening of April 1, Másl packed...
...people are solving their own problems and are only dressing them up as something more," he says. "Were it not for Palach, many of them would have probably tried to commit suicide by other methods." But the acts of Adamec and his followers may also have been a curiously Czech response to troubled times. "People don't take to the streets to fight," says Josef Nesvadba, a prominent Czech author and retired psychoanalyst. "They go home and turn...
...grim knock-on effect came as little surprise to those familiar with Czech history. In 1969, 28 Czech residents set fire to themselves in the 31?2 months after Palach's death, which brought some 200,000 people into Wenceslas Square to light candles and lay flowers. Thirty-four years later, relatively few came to mourn Adamec. But his death and the copycat immolations that followed have become a kind of Czech Rorschach test, as people seek and find explanations that may have more to do with themselves than with the suicides...
...psyche is riven by dual realities - the country that was and the one that is; the loss of both human lives and "the very imprint of humanity in us." To portray that divide in Ararat - which has just opened in the U.K. and Portugal, and comes to Italy, the Czech Republic and Israel this week - Egoyan created a film within a film. His movie is a contemporary tale of two families' searches for truth and reconciliation as they struggle with uncertainty, insecurity and the legacy of denial. One central character is a Canadian-Armenian director named Edward Saroyan (Charles Aznavour...