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...Graf," he says. "It's no fun." But the results have been as sweet as hot raspberries. "She is a champion from within. All from within," he says. "But her extra advantage may be the circle around her -- her mother and brother too." (A practice partner, Czech Pro Pavel Slozil, takes care to coach in whispers and cast a short shadow.) "It is not important who is called coach," says Peter Graf, "but she looks to me." Meanwhile, Navratilova's slump has coincided with several shufflings of the complicated cast of characters around...
...result is an astonishing array of premier players. Lendl is backed up by Mecir (worldwide pro ranking, 20), Milan Srejber (32), Tomas Smid (35) and Pavel Slozil (85); fourth-ranked Mandlikova's teammates include Sukova (7), Andrea Holikova (78) and Regina Marsikova (79). In return for a passport, each of the athletes has agreed to clear participation in tournaments with the board, pay 20% of after-expense prize money to the federation, and kick in an additional $3,000 annually to defray travel expenses for junior players...
CAHOOT'S MACBETH also has its clever moments. Stoppard wrote the play under the direction of Czechoslovakian playwright Pavel Kohout, who experienced the decade of "normalization" following the fall of the Dubcek government in his country. During this period, the government prevented many people, including actors, from pursuing their careers. This repression provides the context for the second play...
...dubbed with words beginning with B, such as Blackjack and Backfire, and fighters are labeled with an F, sometimes bizarrely, as in Foxbat and Frogfoot. The MiG and Su designations refer to two major Soviet design bureaus and honor the late Engineers Ar-tem Mikoyan, Mikhail Gurevich and Pavel Sukhoi...
...writer of the post-Stalin generation commanded such an impassioned following; no other offered a more radical departure from the standard Socialist Realist fare. His nonconformity came naturally. Aksyonov had been born an alien in the Soviet world. He was the child of Stalin's victims: his father Pavel, the former Communist mayor of Kazan, served 18 years in the Gulag, and his mother Eugenia Ginzburg wrote two books about her own 18-year ordeal...