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...many Americans. The other day Kansas City lawyer Ilus W. Davis, a civic leader and former mayor, had lunch with two fellow Kansas City businessmen. One of them had won a contract to install a new sewer system in Cairo, and the other was offering fireproof grease to the Hungarian market. Says Davis: "If we took foreign trade out of Kansas City, we'd be in total depression in 48 hours. It has come over a long period of time, piece by piece, but we sure like...
MEETING VENUS. A Hungarian guest conductor (Niels Arestrup) meets a Swedish diva (Glenn Close) while rehearsing Wagner's Tannhauser with a motley and disputatious band of emigre musicians in Paris. Result: a funny, satirical, romantic and -- above all -- intelligent film about backstage intrigues and onstage triumphs...
...Along the way Harken began to suffer from the collapse of oil prices, which depressed the value of assets it had acquired. Yet Quasha managed to attract a steady flow of investment capital from the likes of Harvard's endowment fund, Hungarian-born superinvestor George Soros and the South African liquor and tobacco barons, the Rupert family. Despite the company's sloppy bookkeeping and long-shot prospects, all except Soros continue to hold large blocks of stock. "Alan Quasha will charm your pants off," explains a former Harken executive. "You will take your wallet out and empty it into anything...
STANDING IN THE TEMPEST: PAINTERS OF THE HUNGARIAN AVANT-GARDE, 1908-1930, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. More than 150 paintings, drawings and prints along with historical newsreels and political posters, many not previously seen in the U.S., explore the flowering of modern Hungarian culture in the years before and after the war that was supposed to have ended all wars. Through Sept...
...associate this with the crusading spirit of the World Wars and the cold war, but it too goes further back. The Spanish-American War began not only to remember the Maine but to cleanse Cuba of Spanish concentration camps. Earlier still, there were Americans who wanted to aid Hungarian rebels against the Habsburgs or Greek rebels against the Ottomans...