Word: czechoslovakians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Michael, bored with his Streets of San Francisco TV series, got in touch with Fantasy Records Chairman Saul Zaentz, who had grown similarly restive in the music business. Zaentz pulled the financing together, and the two fledgling producers hired Czechoslovakian Director Milos Forman and persuaded Nicholson to play McMurphy. Nicholson was enthusiastic about the part, but, lest idealism crowd out commerce, the actor demanded a salary of $1 million and something like 10% of the profits. The casting of Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched, however, represented quite another kind of risk...
...HERE'S ALSO a Czechoslovakian film about the abduction of a harpist, in which hero and villain tangle, and justice prevails satisfactorily against a stark, nightmarish background. In "Euphoria," Peter Max poster colors vie with Matisse-like cutouts in a sort of Lucy-In-The-Sky jazz visual. A Japanese short which follows uses dolls to narrate a Japanese folktale about two hunters who sever the arm of a demon while hunting, and return home only to find their ancient mother bleeding to death in demonic anguish, with a missing...
...from the Czech Socialist opposition, was smuggled out of Czechoslovakia earlier this year. We feel it speaks for itself, and in view of the fact that today, May 9, is the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Prague by Soviet troops, we urge that telegrams be sent to the Czechoslovakian embassy in Washington, D.C., asking that Ivan Dejmal be granted amnesty...
Speaking at a program of films and discussion at Cabot Hall, Karel Kovanda, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at MIT, called the current Czech government "the harshest, the most stalinist in all of Eastern Europe." Kovanda was chairman of the Union of Czechoslovakian Students at the time of the Russian intervention in August...
Rupnik cited a 40 per cent reduction in productivity between 1969 and 1971 as one expression of the dissatisfaction of the majority of the Czechoslovakian people...