Word: isolationism
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Later in 1990, Havel effectively broke the international isolation of Austrian Nazi-cum-President Kurt Waldheim by visiting him in Salzburg. Havel did castigate the still-dissembling Waldheim by telling him, "Lying can never save us from the lie." Yet the Czech leader's visit unjustifiably dignified Waldheim.
In the enforced cultural isolation of his homeland, Kancheli forged a plangent, tonal music of protest. Naive, almost childlike melodies nestle with dissonant passages of the utmost ferocity; isolated sounds wink dimly in the darkness, gradually coalescing into coherent shapes. Suddenly the music explodes like shrapnel, and the listener is...
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me. ThroughApril 9. New Repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln St.,Newton Highlands. 332-1646. The Boston premiere ofthe 1992-93 winner of the New York Drama Critics'Circle Award for "Best Foreign Play," relates thestory of a trio of hostages awaiting their fate atthe hands of...
Someone Who'll Watch Over Me. ThroughApril 9. New repertory Theatre, 54 Lincoln St.,Newton Highlands. 332-1646. The Boston premiere othe 1992-93 winner of the New York Drama Critics'Circle Award for "Best Foreign Play," relates thestory of a trio of hostages awaiting their fate atthe hands of...
The movie's frequently plausible situations make the viewer uncomfortable. Motaba, the incurable, fatal African disease brought over by a monkey, can't be laughed off. Nor can scenes of the town's isolation under martial law. The formerly bucolic Cedar Creek is surrounded with barbed wire. Heavily guarded "camps...