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Sometimes the history of a place is best told through the history of a remarkable man. Jiri Ruml is such a man. Twenty years ago this month, Moscow dispatched Warsaw Pact troops to Czechoslovakia to crush a budding reform movement, a brutal act that plunged the country into a dark winter of repression from which it is only now emerging. Ruml, a journalist in Prague, was fired, but that was merely the beginning of his troubles. Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer, who covered the invasion for TIME, knew Ruml well. This month he returned to Prague to find...
...parked near Prague's Old Town Square, ready to disperse the young people gathered around the mournful statue of Jan Hus, the 15th century religious reformer who was burned at the stake as a heretic. Looking down on the tanks from his third-floor office on Parizska (Paris Street), Jiri Ruml tells me, "We failed. The next attempt at reform will have to come from the center, from Moscow...
...typical Matti Nykanen performance: an explosive takeoff, an eerily long floating descent and -- as of right -- a first-place finish. The boyish Nykanen, 24, punched the air in triumph and seemed to ignore the awed congratulations of Pavel Ploc and Jiri Malec, the Czechs who finished a distant second and third. The decisive win in the 70-meter competition gave Nykanen his first gold at Calgary, with a shot at an unprecedented second and third this week in the weather-delayed 90-meter individual and team events. It also made him the first jumper in some 50 years to finish...
...this point, the show plunges off into the badlands of promotion. It contains things one is glad to see--the antic, sardonic imagination of Sigmar Polke, for instance, which has been reprocessed by squads of younger artists from David Salle to Jiri Dokoupil; or the blunt, strong images of Eugen Schonebeck, who abruptly gave up painting at the age of 30, in 1966. There is also a powerful group of sculptures by Beuys. But the artists who get the most play are those industrial-scale bores of the international art market, Baselitz, with his upside-down figures, and A.R. Penck...
...John McFall, 36. Lynne Taylor-Corbett, whose Great Galloping Gottschalk was a hit last year, has a moody new piece, Estuary; once again the performances, by Van Hamel and Patrick Bissell, burnish a dull concept. Van Hamel, a dancer of wit and grace, has an even murkier assignment in Jiri Kylian's Torso, a grim, roughhouse pas de deux with Clark Tippet...