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There he slowed down a bit, took more leisurely glances at the passing beauty ("feminine pulchritude," he called it), and talked of shared arcana. "You know," he said conspiratorally, with a Yugoslavian roll, "the only reason Walker got his interview was from kissing Kubrick's ass..." Thus dispensing with the first book of the series in which his own appears...
...Madeleine Kahn). Bannister is in San Francisco in hopes of winning a $20,000 grant to study the role of igneous rocks in primitive man's music. The rival for the grant, one Hugh Simon, is the villain of the piece, plagiarist and foreigner, with an accent as unequivocally Yugoslavian as Streisand's is New Yorkese. Complications breed complications, and descent into farce takes about all of five minutes...
...book is fascinating because of the astonishing variety of Armstrong's encounters: Serbian patriots, Yugoslavian royalty, Poincaré, Clemenceau, Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt. He savors characters like Rumania's giddy and theatrical Queen Marie, who once told him, "Like clowns [royal families], amuse people, even with their funerals." One night in Madrid, Ernest Hemingway, otherwise charming, kept threatening to seek out Novelist Louis Bromfield and beat him up for some obscure slight...
Again this season, Getchell has talent from all over the world with which to work. One of the most highly touted Yardlings is Dragan Vujovic. Vujovic is a Yugoslavian who lived in Vienna before coming to Cambridge. At the moment he is undergoing medical therapy at Stillman for a heel injury he suffered jumping out of a stadium in Vienna after finding he was locked in after a late individual practice session...
Yugoslavia was the first East European nation to defy Russia. It was a considerable event. Until Josip Broz Tito rebelled in 1948, Joseph Stalin seemed invincible in the Communist world. The Yugoslavian assertion of independence showed that there could be more than one path for Communists: it also set an example that led to the whole concept of a neutral Third World. Today all that is taken for granted. But at the time the Yugoslav struggle was a very close thing. Just how close is dramatically described by Historian Vladimir Dedijer, who lived through the ordeal as one of Marshal...