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...Budapest, an eerily familiar time of economic troubles when store clerks fret about losing their jobs and customers are kings, She Loves Me is based on a Hungarian play that also inspired movies: The Shop Around the Corner with Jimmy Stewart and In the Good Old Summertime with Judy Garland. Its situation is delicious: two employees of the same cosmetics shop "meet" through an equivalent of a personals ad and write passionate letters without | any idea that they know -- and despise -- each other. In daily life they are dull and ordinary. Setting pen to paper, they are romantic dreamers. They...
...Saturday nights, as many as 300 young women line the margins of E55, a Czech highway near the German border. Their costumes vary: light frocks, skimpy red dresses, glow-in-the-dark Spandex pants. They speak a babel of languages: Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, German. But they have only one thing to sell...
Since World War II, art vandalism has been relatively rare, and always (so to speak) personal. When a deranged Hungarian-Australian tourist named Laszlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pieta in St. Peter's with a hammer in 1972, it was because he believed himself to be the son of God. When the future art dealer Tony Shafrazi vandalized Picasso's Guernica in the Museum of Modern Art in 1974, he moronically fancied he was making a point about art politics...
During World War II in Budapest, the Soros family, Hungarian Jews, became fugitives from Nazi persecution, living under assumed names and at times hiding out in a basement. Soros, his parents and his brother barely survived the war, only to see Hungary fall under the fist of the Soviet Union. It was a harrowing time, yet, in retrospect, a positive one for the young Soros. "Nineteen forty-four was the best year of my life," he maintains. "I was 14 when the world intruded on my life. I was old enough to be aware of what was happening, and young...
Ivan Berend, a former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and now a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes Soros as a "man on a mission," an heir to the powerful East European tradition of intellectuals guiding a political transformation. "He has become consumed with making a difference," says Berend, former head of the Soros Foundation in Hungary...