Word: istvan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Interior Minister Istvan Horvath instructed the police and border guards to let East German citizens leave Hungary with their East German travel documents at any border point...
...second novel, the former Bad Boy of Tennis again displays an intimate knowledge of the international tournament scene and an insensitivity to the niceties of plot and narrative. This time out the protagonist, Istvan Horwat, is an East European champion who conquers Wimbledon and women until a little orphan forces him to abandon the Egomania Open. She is Natasha Kotany, the daughter of friends killed in a plane crash. Under Horwat's avuncular gaze, the girl blossoms into a beautiful woman and a court phenom. One night she astonishes him, if no one else, by inquiring, "Haven't you understood...
...risk of heart disease to older adults, who have been found to consume most of their caffeine in coffee or tea, has likely been measured more accurately. Older adults get only 6 percent fo their caffeine from soft drinks, according to Drs. Gerdi Weidner and Joseph Istvan, who reported their findings in the November 28 New England Journal of Medicine...
...interview, reprinted from the Hungarian trade-union newspaper Nepszava, Deputy Foreign Minister Istvan Roska noted that there were some differences between Warsaw Pact members over the terms that should be written into the 30-year-old treaty's extension. Roska also observed that pact members are "independent and sovereign countries that without exception respect the principle of nonintervention in (one another's) internal affairs." That comment clearly referred to the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, formulated after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, under which Moscow reserves the right to intervene in Eastern Europe wherever socialism is threatened...
...Rake-inspired by the famous series of Hogarth engravings-tells the story of Tom Rakewell (Tenor Gösta Winbergh), a naive but lustful country boy who falls under the spell of the Devil, Nick Shadow (Baritone Istvan Gati). Abandoning his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Soprano Cecilia Gasdia) for the fleshpots of London, Tom sinks ever deeper into degradation until he finally goes mad and is committed to Bedlam. In Russell's production, Tom sports a gold lame suit and a Sony Walkman. Baba the Turk, the bearded lady whom Tom marries, is a blind pop celebrity in a bright...