Word: miroslav
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These personal tragedies are only one aspect of the incredible mediocrity now ruling over Czech film production. The tone was set by Miroslav Muller, a hardliner and the current cultural watchdog of the Czech Communist Party. He tried his own talent and wrote the screenplay of a new film directed by K. Stekly (who is well in his 70s and the only director who agreed to do the job). The film is called The Enemy at the Wheel and is supposed to be an allegory on the 1968 events. The story goes something like this: a gang of cab drivers...
Palestrina: The Song of Songs (Prague Madrigal Choir; Miroslav Venhoda conductor; Vanguard/ Bach Guild, $2.98). The great Renaissance polyphonist, best known for soaring church works like the Pope Marcellus Mass, here took his text, somewhat uncharacteristically, from Solomon's highly sensuous biblical verses: "A bundle of myrrh is my well beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts." The result: one of Palestrina's two or three loveliest works, sung movingly by the Czech performers...
...quasi-surrealism with a chic nihilistic attitude toward revolution -- were beginning to overshadow the basic insight and vitality found in the earlier parts of the film. Anderson's talents as a director of actors still seemed considerable, and the photographic images he produced in collaboration with the Czech cinematographer, Miroslav Ondricek, seemed as striking as when they first appeared, but the fuzzy radicalism Anderson tried to force on his film reduced If...'s impact considerably...
...Crimson were nervous in the opening minutes, but they came back to the game when Bob Goodenow grabbed the puck in front of the Czech net and put it past Dukla`s goalie Miroslav Krase...
Four of the Czech icemen playing tonight did play for the national team. The first line of Jan Hrbaty, Jaroslav Holak and Jan Klapac as well as goalie Miroslav Nolak are all Meritorious Masters of Sport in their country. The honor is the highest a Czechoslavakian athlete can receive...