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...opened off- Broadway last week under the author's direction. The cast of nine, an army on the tiny stage, seems thin and the story wan. But Emmy winner Jean Stapleton and the author's daughter Hallie glow as two Texas housewives, one full of repressed fury at a hollow marriage, the other retreating from reality into dark memories of her father's violent death...
Amid ruins of its own making, Serbia has a hollow victory...
...purification" of Muslims from these towns and villages in northwestern Bosnia has proved a hollow victory for the Serbs, destroying prosperity as well as security. All supplies must be trucked in from Belgrade, along a corridor often under fire from Croatian artillery. Residents complain of food shortages. There is no gasoline; most travel by bicycle and horse- drawn cart. People do not know how they will heat their homes as winter approaches...
...mounting Yugoslav crisis until Baker visited Belgrade in June 1991, when the country was on the brink of dissolution. Baker and Eagleburger agreed that the federal government should be bolstered as the only force able to manage an orderly transition into freer statelets. But that government, which became a hollow creature of Serbian expansion, did nothing to stop the country's breakup...
...railway stations, and lived for a while in a tent city that was pitched outside the walls of the Kremlin for six months in 1990. "It's so hard to live these days. I am an invalid, and I have almost no means of survival," says Pronin, whose hollow-cheeked face and legs twisted by an accident he refuses to discuss make him look far older than his 47 years. "I used to be an artist and earned quite a bit, but I became sick. Under the communists, I could at least survive on the 30 rubles a month...