Word: zurich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While at Harvard and in Cambridge, productions are using adaptations of other forms of art, in Boston, Travesties is stealing from life itself. Not literature or film but history is re-written when Lenin, Tristan Tzara, the Dadist and James Joyce meet in a library in Zurich. Their fictive joint story is told by a character who himself re-writes the story as he goes along. Tom Stoppard's scintillating play, studded with allusions to the radicals' works, which never did as well in New York as it deserved, is playing at the Colonial Theatre, 106 Boylston Street, beginning...
...Chilean Communist Luis Corvalán (TIME, Dec. 27). A native of a small town in eastern Russia, Bukovsky was serving a seven-year sentence for "anti-Soviet agitation " in Vladimir Prison, about 100 miles northeast of Moscow, when he was unexpectedly flown to Switzerland. In his flower-decorated Zurich hotel room, Bukovsky last week gave an interview to TIME Paris Bureau Chief Gregory H. Wierzynski and Geneva Correspondent Robert Kroon. Their report...
...been told by prison authorities in Vladimir to get his things together and prepare to change cells. He was then put in a small KGB (secret police) van and whisked to another jail in Moscow. A ranking official of the KGB personally accompanied the handcuffed prisoner to Zurich on a chartered Aeroflot jet. Once the plane was no longer flying over Soviet territory the official unlocked the cuffs and ex plained that Bukovsky would not be deprived of Soviet citizenship like Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was deported in 1974. Instead, the erstwhile convict was given a Soviet passport...
...nephew Mikhail were also flown to Switzerland to join him in exile. Simultaneously, Corvalán was snatched from prison near Santiago and put aboard a flight to Zurích with his wife Lilly. The solemn exchange took place on a remote runway nearly a mile from Zurich's Kloten Airport. Corvalán was then flown to Moscow for a hero's welcome and star billing at Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's 70th birthday party on Sunday...
...Urice. For years he lived alone with his nightmare, but now it is known to millions of Dutch citizens-as is their fellow countryman, Millionaire Art Collector Pieter Nicolaas Menten, 77. Last week Dutch and Swiss police finally cornered the fleeing Menten and his wife in a hotel near Zurich. Found in Menten's room: photocopies of Swiss extradition law, and tickets for a TWA flight to New York. Menten unsuccessfully attempted suicide shortly after his capture...