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Last week a significant crack occurred in that system with the German-language publication in the West of The Taste of Power, by the Slovak writer Ladislav Mňačko. Although his book has not been published in Czechoslovakia, Mňačko, 47, made no attempt to crawl under cover. Setting a precedent for a "protest" novel, he dealt personally with Austrian Publisher Fritz Molden, expects his book to appear before long throughout Europe...
...Taste of Power traces a Communist tough's devious path to a cell at the top, first as a hard-drinking guerrilla fighter, then as a brutal apparatchik. Mňačko weaves a picture of a pathetic, subhuman instrument of an inhuman system that ultimately traps and isolates him. Unlike some Communist contemporaries who view their success from prison,* Mňačko still haunts the Olympia Grill, his favorite bar in Prague, where he is treated like a local hero. "All of the incidents in the book are true," he said last week. "We thought...
...comes from its 800 bottling plants abroad, and it still holds the largest share of the foreign market for U.S. soft drinks. Every day, from Australia to the Apennines, 85 million customers call for a Coke, referring to it as Ha-Ha in Ethiopia's Amharic language or Ko-Kou Ko-Lo, which in Mandarin Chinese also trans lates into "palatable and enjoyable." Coke is being pressed, though not very hard, by Pepsi-Cola, which since 1960 has doubled its foreign sales. The Coke-Pepsi battle, with its advertising campaigns, developed a market for all kinds of U.S. soft...
Almost nowhere did Skolnik play it safe. The dialogue is riddled with puns the author would have choked on. Lover's sighs become hyennaic giggles and Ko-ko, the Lord High Executioner, climbed half-way up the balcony before he told the irascible Katisha to "shrink not from...
...that that's much trouble for Steve Kaplan's Ko-ko. Kaplan, who assumed a full lotus position at one point, wound himself around the stage. This bumbling hero writhed, dived, lurched, smirked, and stayed alive even to the bitter end. When he was on the stage with Michael Sargent, the pace quickened and the laughter was ready for them before they opened their mouths. Sargent was Poo-bah, the Lord High Everything Else, a tall, grumbling hypocrit he portrayed almost perfectly. When he smiled a rare smile, he wrinkled every patch of skin...