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...same voice of protest is speaking in Rumania, where Transylvanian-born Dumitru Radu Popescu relived a teenager's view of the smooth transition from fascism to Communism in his haunting short story, The Blue Lion. To escape the heavy hand of the censor, Polish writers such as Zbigniew Zaluski have resorted to 19th century allegories that discuss in grave detail the positive qualities of Polish uprisings against the Russians 100 years ago-a theme with sledgehammer relevance in Poland today. The Eastern Europeans are also encouraged by the occasional sounds of independence they hear from Moscow, where Aleksandr Tvardovsky...
Hoping to cash in on the riches, 47 pianists from 16 nations entered this year's Cliburn competition. To begin with, each performer was required to play ten selections, ranging from the baroque to the severely modern. It was all severely worrisome. Rumania's fidgety, fingernail-chewing Radu Lupu, 20, one of the six finalists, suffered from a case of "the dry heaves," had to be rescued from the men's room before each performance. On the day of the finals, he arose from a practice session and in his excitement cracked his head on a ledge...
...Memorial Auditorium, each contestant played the first movement of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto and one of two Beethoven concertos. A computer tallied the scores of the international panel of 17 judges, but the announcement of the results had to be delayed while contest officials frantically searched for Radu Lupu. He was found at last, wandering the hallways, gulping air in an effort to pacify his queasy stomach. But the agony had been worth enduring: minutes later he was named the first-prize winner. The pressure off, Lupu celebrated at a post-performance party by playing Gershwin long into...
Cluj is also the home of Editor Dumitru Radu Popescu, 30, who touched off a storm of criticism last October with his story The Blue Lion, a scorching critique of early Communist schooling in Rumania. In one scene, Popescu and his classmates are being searched by a zealous Paukerite teacher for "poisonous" books from the perennially locked school library. "They frisked our pockets and passed their hands over our bodies," wrote Popescu, "and since this didn't seem to satisfy them, they ordered us to take off our clothes. I opened my mouth wide and said 'Aaaaaaaah...
...sold for $88,000 to John Sparler of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a paper executive. The flashiest boat was Century Boat Co.'s chrome-trimmed, 55-m.p.h. Coronado speedboat, with wrap-around windshield and a 285-h.p. Cadillac V-8 engine. Ten minutes after the doors opened, Radu Irimescu, onetime Rumanian Minister to the U.S., who now works for Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., snapped it up for about...