Word: czechoslovakia
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Milos Forman, who made Fireman's Ball, is often used as an example of a Czechoslovak director being influenced by the French New Wave, but it is likely that he was more influenced by the rich body of literature produced in Czechoslovakia during the early...
Incredibly, most of Washington's newsmen (like the public at large) have greeted these foreshadowings of Chile, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Soviet Russia and diverse other police states with bleatings about how "it can't happen here...
...Curtain as the Revolutionary Council continued to issue stern warnings to Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe calling for immediate reforms. "You have betrayed socialism," read the latest warning, sent to the Polish government. "Begin taking steps toward economic political democracy or face the consequences." Uprisings were already reported in Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria...
...current fad in the U.S. and Canada spins off that theory, by way of France and Czechoslovakia. French researchers discovered 70 years ago that if they put a dead cat inside a small plywood pyramid, the body did not decay but merely dehydrated or was "mummified." Inspired by that work, Czechoslovak Radio Engineer Karel Drbal fashioned his own small pyramid and stored his razor blades in it. In 1959 Drbal took out a patent on the Cheops Pyramid Razor Blade Sharpener...
...NEXT DAY, Radcliffe and Czechoslovakia squared off in the "petite finale." And after battling the wind for 45 minutes at the start, the 'Cliffe jumped off to a three to four seat lead after the first ten strokes. At that point, the Czech boat inexplicably turned into the Radcliffe lane, causing the entire race to be called back...