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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number is part memoir, part meditation. Timerman, a Ukrainian Jew whose family moved to Argentina in 1928 to escape the pogroms, was one of Buenos Aires' most influential journalists and newspaper publishers. That placed him dangerously close to the center of events as Argentina imploded in the late '60s and early '70s, during the second coming of Juan Domingo Peron. The country's civil identity virtually disappeared, with "Peronists assassinating Peronists, the military assassinating the military, union members assassinating union members, students other students, policemen other policemen." Ideas were...
...White Hotel tries to do just that and, to a startling degree, succeeds. English Author D.M. Thomas, 46, creates an intensely private heroine to whom extraordinarily public things happen. During the course of her fictional life, Lisa Erdman, a modestly talented opera singer of Polish and Ukrainian descent, is forced to make two journeys that propel her around the perimeter of 20th century imagination. She is treated for sexual hysteria by Sigmund Freud in Vienna and, years later, murdered by Nazi soldiers at Babi...
Most of the details of Holbrook's Ukrainian misadventure-and exactly how far the entrapment attempt progressed before Holbrook grew suspicious and fled the party scene-remain top secret. (The Soviets claim he was caught with a woman in his Rovno hotel room.) Nor is there any firm consensus about Soviet motives In attempting to compromise Holbrook, or pretending to attempt to compromise him. The leading theory among U.S. officials is that the Soviets considered Holbrook an especially acute pest: he speaks perfect Russian and had made many friends among the Soviet military. The Soviets regard the dozen...
When Metrinko got home last week, he went immediately to Saints Cyril and Methodius Church, where he had been baptized as a child into the Ukrainian Catholic faith. He blew out the votive flame that had been lit on the 100th day of his captivity, and wept when the priest read the Sermon on the Mount. Metrinko now plans to retreat to a cabin deep in the woods for a few weeks. The hideaway has no phone or TV, but, he says "there's a wonderful fireplace, and I'm going to spend my time chopping...
...Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. A saucy, stylish musical that spoofs the golden age of the silver screen. All Marxophiles will adore the Ukrainian resurrection of Groucho, Chico and Harpo...