Word: emigree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The highlight of the master class was the confrontation of the 49-year-old Soviet emigre, who is often called the world's greatest cellist, and senior Yo-Yo Ma, who has already had a remarkable career in his own right. In fact, until Rostropovich switched to Columbia management last...
Exiles never forget, of course, but the emigre communities in Miami, San Juan, and New Orleans have calmed down. Extremist groups may still throw a hand grenade down the gangplank of a Russian cruise ship or threaten the airlines of countries resuming diplomatic relations with Cuba, but the lurid billboard...
To French eyes, Frantisek Kupka was, for the last 20 years of his life, an ir relevance: a withered Czech emigre, with sunken cheeks and a disproportionately large appetite for food, who lived in a small cluttered house in the Paris suburb of Puteaux, surrounded by old abstract paintings that...
"In my articles I always wanted to help Yugoslavia. I am simply fighting for the rights set out in the constitution." So pleaded Mihajlo Mihajlov last week as he stood before five stern-faced jud es in a courtroom at Novi Sad, about 75 miles northwest of Belgrade. For the...
WHAT IS MORE, this beginner likes words even better than people. He is no Russian emigre, but he has a distinctly Nabokovian penchant for treating words like butterflies with a giddy life of their own. His conceits are playful: