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Siberia, 1919. Enter, staggering across the tundra, a half-starved revolutionary escaped from a Russian prison camp. Already onstage are a marooned regiment of Czech soldiers, a sexy lady photographer and a bizarre Christian sect of people whose zeal leads them to castrate themselves. With these chess pieces Meek stages a stunningly bleak Dostoyevskian drama, exploring the exaltation of the human spirit and the grotesqueries of the human body?the book's title refers not to sex but to cannibalism...
Kastleman’s semester abroad sparked the change in her academic focus and continues to influence her work. The experimental theater program she attended concentrated on how theater culture integrated with the Czech Republic’s historical, social, and political climates...
After Thurmond, the next person in the order of succession would be the secretary of state, who at the time was Madeline Albright. But Albright, a Czech immigrant, was born in Prague, and Article II of the Constitution requires the president to be a “natural born Citizen...
...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...