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...born in Hungary in 1944 and, after Soviet troops invaded the country to crush a popular uprising in 1956, he fled to the U.S. He now serves on the board of the Central European University in Budapest...
Kushner’s 1994 play “Slavs!” tells the story of 12 characters living in the final years before the breakup of the Soviet Union. In “Slavs!,” according to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, “words are physical necessities that flood out of every character’s mouth, as blood from a wound.” According to Spillane-Hinks, words propel the play’s plot because, in the particular universe of Kushner’s provocative play...
...topics considered in the play—disease, the Soviet Union, environmental poisoning, and sexuality—are but a launching pad for the play’s ultimate aim: to trigger an emotional response from viewers who might recognize themselves in the story...
...Obama is expanding his horizons with foreign policy. When Katrina hit, Obama was on his first major foreign trip as a senator, a ten-day visit to Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan, where he joined Republican Richard Lugar to learn about efforts to dispose of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union...
...blastproof doors. From 1968 to 1992 these subterranean redoubts were manned by soldiers from the Royal Observer Corps; on guard today are uniformed mannequins, their lifelessness adding an apocalyptic chill to the air. It's like a musty James Bond film inside. Sixties teletypewriters, radar blips showing "hostile Soviet sorties" and air-raid target maps of the world (all donated by the Ministry of Defence) re-create the atmosphere of the atomic age. The mood shifts from the terrifying to the ridiculous in the onsite cinemas, where plummy BBC voices calmly instruct the nation on how to protect their homes...