Word: czecho-slovakian
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...creation of a painting, not as an art object itself. Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg's "Life with Pop," in which the two artists sat in a Dsseldorf department store posing as "living sculpture," was meant to be experienced in person, not via photograph. And Tamas Szentjoby's "Czecho-Slovakian Radio Brick"-a brick which was used as an ironic substitute for hand-held radios after the latter were confiscated by Soviet authorities-was meant as a social protest, not a museum piece...
...Welsh villagers feel deeply and simply the fate of the Czecho-Slovakian miners they might have been. The makers of the film have had the great good sense to do their jobs unobtrusively, and to leave the rest to the reverent, simple acting of real, deeply moved, everyday human beings...
...statements] were ill chosen." Instead of pleading with the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union to re-establish a Poland, Sikorski goes ahead and formulates plans for a miniature cordon sanitaire composed of small eastern countries to block off Russia, and even entertains hopes of acquiring Czecho-Slovakian territory...
Gymnastics is the baseball of transplanted Czecho-Slovakian, Swiss and German Americans. Largest of these groups is the 100,000 U.S. Bohemians who be long to the worldwide Sokol organization (1,000,000 members), started in 1862 by Dr. Miroslav Tyrs of Prague. Next largest group is the American Turners, a confederation of German-descended Turner Societies...
...killing of Hitler's Hangman Reinhard Heydrich by the Czecho-Slovakian underground is the springboard from which Hangmen's characters take their dives. These include a shrewd Gestapo inspector (Alexander Granach) who makes it very tough for Prague's patriotic citizens to hide Heydrich's killer, one Dr. Svoboda (Brian Donlevy); a venerable professor (Walter Brennan) who gives his life to thwart the dastardly inspector; the professor's pretty daughter (Anna Lee) who gives her reputation-to throw the inspector off the scent, she lets herself be discovered in Dr. Svoboda's bedroom...