Word: draghicis
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...before the dominance of kitchen-sink realism, when the American theater was expressionistic and experimental, poetically and politically inflamed. Despite a few sentimental false notes, he is painfully apt about the way we live now. But his play is set timelessly in "the modern era." Marina Draghici's set reinforces this reach for the enduring: its Art Deco windows and wire fences, beer gardens and back alleys evoke the urban sense of living with the decaying legacy of the past...
...arrests, "rude fakes and transgression of the most elementary rules of law." Thus, Dej's successor as party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, paved the way for a purge of the late Dej's Stalinist cronies. The first to go was a onetime Ceausescu rival, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was purged from the party Presidium and from his post as Deputy Premier...
...presidency himself. He also did away with "parallel" party and government jobs at the local level, reshuffled the Rumanian hierarchy and put some of the Old Guard out to pasture. Among the losers was Ceausescu's only challenger for power in the past, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was dropped as a Party Secretary and became one of several deputy premiers...