Word: czechs
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...aspirant's light skin. You see it in pharmacies selling Fair & Lovely lightening soaps and creams and--new this season--Fair and Handsome, for men. And you see it in commercials, in which India's top two models, Katrina Kaif and Yana Gupta, are part English and part Czech, respectively. Lightness is big business. Fair and Handsome's maker, Mohan Goenka of Calcutta-based Emami, says the fairness-cosmetics market has grown two-thirds in the past five years, to an annual $250 million. India's 60,000 beauty salons do a roaring trade bleaching faces and blasting skin with...
...sport's top 42 rankings. Thirty-four of today's 58 foreign wrestlers are from Mongolia, which has a strong tradition in a kind of wrestling similar to sumo, but a growing number are from Eastern Europe. Nine wrestlers are from Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, the Czech Republic,Kazakhstan and Russia. (A handful of Americans, like the first non-Japanese yokozuna, Akebonoknown as Chad Rowan to childhood friends in Hawaiirose to the highest ranks of sumo in the early 1990s...
Delaney-Smith won over any doubters with her team’s dominant run. The USA’s closest victory was an 88-64 drubbing of Czech Republic in the opening game. The USA squad also routed South Africa 92-22 in pool play and downed Russia 118-67 in the semifinals...
...musing on the workings of communist ideology, Czech writer Milan Kundera notes about what he calls the two tears of kitsch. ?The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass. The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass.? Kitsch denies the earthy messiness of life. And ?totalitarian kitsch,? he writes, outlaws individualism, doubt and irony, because they risk exposing the beautiful lie it is designed to sustain. The gulag, Kundera argues, is ?a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse...
MARRIED. VACLAV HAVEL, 60, playwright President of the Czech Republic, and DAGMAR VESKRNOVA, mid-40s, a prominent Czech actress; at a municipal hall, in Prague. It is the second marriage for both. Havel is recovering from the removal of a malignant tumor and half his right lung...