Word: krzysztof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE. Krzysztof Kieslowski's mood piece about two young women -- one Polish, the other Parisian -- is both emotionally opaque and theatrically radiant, for it showcases a beautiful star in the making, Irene Jacob. She won Cannes's Best Actress prize this year; may she illuminate movie screens for decades to come...
...some Romantic operas are funny (e.g., Wagner's Die Meistersinger), can some post-Romantic operas be called post-funny? That was the question raised last week by the newest work of Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki, 57, a leading European composer who has increasingly been changing the gardes, from avant to rear. UBU REX, which opened the Munich Opera Festival, is based on the 1896 play Ubu roi, by French Absurdist Alfred Jarry, about a loathsome clod (read: typical bourgeois) who murders the King of Poland and, supplanting him, ruins the country. Yet even with the events of the past...
When he was campaigning for President, Lech Walesa promised to give every citizen a slice of the country's wealth. Last week his government took a giant step toward fulfilling that pledge when Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki announced that Warsaw will effectively make every one of the country's 27 million adult citizens a shareholder in Poland...
Three East European countries want no part of the Soviet stand. "I don't think it is a practical proposition," said Polish Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski. "Through neutrality you might easily isolate that economic giant and create a situation where Germany tries to become a power or a superpower." He said Poland would support an arrangement under which Germany remained in NATO if Western troops did not move forward into what is now East Germany. Hungary and Czechoslovakia supported the Poles...