Word: czeched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bugajski's The Interrogation, a harrowing babes-in-bondage film that the Poles had suppressed since 1982. The jury should also have honored Karel Kachyna's The Ear, made in 1970 and just now released. This stark, dark comedy, depicting one long night in the life of a bickering Czech couple who find their house bugged, plays like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf as written by Franz Kafka...
Dienstbier quoted Czech President Vaclav Havel's belief that "America can best help [Czechoslovakia] by helping the USSR...
Legislators in Prague took a historic vote last week: by a landslide, they renamed their country the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, removing a hyphen they had inserted only four weeks earlier. The new monumental mouthful was a concession to the country's 5 million Slovaks, who have resented the dominance of the 10 million Czechs ever since the country was formed in 1918 from the Austro-Hungarian empire's two western Slavonic provinces...
Harvard's offer to Havel was made public in early February, when the Czech elections were only tentatively scheduled for the June 8 date. Now that the noted playwright has declined the offer, speculation is once again mounting about the identity of the Harvard Commencement speaker...
...Prague Spring fame, had long denounced Czechoslovakia's Communist regime. He was elected president in December by a unanimous vote of the parliament. He has since said he will only serve as interim president until the parliamentary elections, but many believe he may decide to remain active on the Czech political scene...