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...second couple consists of Sabina, who remains in Switzerland, and her intellectual lover Franz, Sabina, fond of infidelity, leaves Franz just as he leaves his wife for her. Franz, whose unfulfilled love for Sabina makes him more beautiful than before, attracts a student mistress whom he loves in Sabina's stead. He dies in Cambodia, on a trip for intellectuals who want to protest the treatment Cambodia has received. Confronted with muggers who demand his money, Franz chooses to fight them, remembering that Sabina admired his physical strength; he dies from the injuries they inflict. Franz is betrayed...
...condition of love, indeed, that the lightness of experience becomes most comic and most acute; Kundera's meditation on the problems of love are very fine. Sabina, looking at Franz's physically powerful frame, grows angry at Franz's refusal to use his strength outwardly in directing others' lives. He is too weak, she thinks, at the same time knowing that a strong man would be at least as offensive; she decides, in a terrible access of honesty, that it is love itself she cannot stomach. A more unsettling predicament is the failure even of dedicated lovers to achieve real...
...Haitian government invited Franz Minuty to the national palace to recite poetry...
...everyone was delighted for Armstrong, Johnson kicked up as much frosty disdain as admiration. It began a month ago, during the running of the Lauberhorn race at Wengen, Switzerland, over a shortened course and in conditions so poor that the grand old Austrian avalanche Franz Klammer tried unsuccessfully to get the race canceled. There Johnson became the first American to win a World Cup downhill. After the race, the popular and easygoing Klammer called Johnson "a little Nasenbohrer"-nose picker-who had sneaked into first place by a fluke. At Sarajevo, while Johnson skied superb training runs during the week...
...just an inconvenient storm. Forty people were killed in avalanches in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Throughout Alpine Europe, roads were closed, villages cut off, skiers stranded. Austrian Franz Klammer, American Bill Johnson and that whole body of men who like to race down mountains had to break two dates with Mount Bjelašnica, where the winds topped 120 m.p.h. and the safety nets blew away. Over at Jahorina, the women downhillers were also delayed...