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Zalaegerszeg, Hungary Since the western Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg was founded in the 11th century, it has been besieged by Ottoman hordes, devastated by plague and occupied by both the Nazi and Soviet armies. Today, this city of 62,000 faces another catastrophe, all thanks to the woes of its meat factory. Employing 650 people directly and providing a livelihood to hundreds more - from local farmers to shopkeepers - the Zalabaromfi meat-processing plant has long been one of Zalaegerszeg's most important businesses. But the credit crisis has complicated a long-running dispute between Zalabaromfi and Hungary's second largest...
Late last month, the New York Times ran an obituary for reclusive Hungarian artist Simon Hantaï. A relative unknown in America, Hantaï was one of the more innovative figures in 20th-century Continental art, producing works ranging from the “Écriture Rose”—a 14-by-11-foot canvas covered in hand-reproduced texts of various origins—to the “Mariales” series—comprised of intricately-folded canvases treated with bright colors, forming beautiful and disorienting aperiodic patterns. For a long period, however...
...women come from all over, and are united by their love of Shanghai (which gives you reason to pause). The expats—seemingly unsuccessful at life and love in their home countries and normally conspicuous at night as they troll the bars with cocky smiles and Hungarian hookers—love Shanghai because Shanghai loves them and their money. They’re another frivoulous aspect of a frivolous city.I have come close to finding the real Shanghai only when walking through a food market alley, and it has led me to believe that the further...
...women come from all over, and are united by their love of Shanghai (which gives you reason to pause). The expats—seemingly unsuccessful at life and love in their home countries and normally conspicuous at night as they troll the bars with cocky smiles and Hungarian hookers—love Shanghai because Shanghai loves them and their money. They’re another frivoulous aspect of a frivolous city. I have come close to finding the real Shanghai only when walking through a food market alley, and it has led me to believe that the further...
...HUNGARIAN TEAM ingeniously fashions Olympic Village drapes into opening-ceremony uniforms...