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...Rumanian minister, whose religious views prompted the communist regime to force him out of his native country, said last night that self-fulfillment is found through self-denial and allowing God to govern one's life...
...impose some setting and style not obviously intended by the author. Every production needs a point of view, to be sure; no play mounts itself. Yet exciting interpretations almost always result not from invention but from rediscovering something the playwright meant to say. That kind of respectful reading underlies Rumanian Expatriate Lucian Pintilie's eclectic, visually daring version of Ibsen's The Wild Duck at Arena Stage in Washington. The play is frequently seen as a domestic melodrama in which well-intentioned people cause calamities; the climactic suicide of a dreamy adolescent girl is generally staged with perverse beauty...
...which he won a Tony Award and an Oscar, almost obscured his achievements as a movie performer, photographer and TV director; after a two- year battle with cancer; in New York City. He was born Taidje Khan on Sakhalin Island, off the coast of Siberia, to a Rumanian Gypsy mother and a Swiss-Mongolian father. Reared in Peking and Paris, he was a cabaret singer and circus acrobat before becoming an actor, arriving in the U.S. in 1941 and making his Broadway debut in the 1946 Lute Song. He brought his bald-pated, brooding persona to three dozen films, most...
...Rumanian scholar Mircea Eliade made the distinction between a people's "profane time" and its "sacred time." In sacred time, he thought, deeds done in historical time partake of the permanence of myth. In his dying hours on Mount McGregor, Grant labored to transport the Civil War, and himself, into sacred time. The war arrived there intact. Grant, however, has remained in a dusk somewhere between myth and Galena...
...radiation and, when he was finished with an experiment, had his subjects exterminated. Of particular interest to Mengele were twins and dwarfs: at a tribunal in Jerusalem last February, Auschwitz survivors told of how he had had two toddler twins stitched together and of how, discovering a Rumanian circus family of seven dwarfs, he exhibited them naked before an audience of 2,000 cheering SS men. On the walls of one of the doctor's labs were, remembered one victim, rows upon rows of eyes "pinned up like butterflies...