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...foot is the pub U vystrelenyho oka (The Shot-Out Eye)?the name, of course, a tribute to Zizka's missing orb. The slightly scruffy venue offers weekly live rock, blues and alternative music and typical Czech pub food?that is, everything is bread crumbed and fried. Try Hermelin, a Czech version of Camembert cheese pickled in oil with garlic and hot peppers. The beer is cheap and plentiful?indeed, nothing costs more than $3.50. 3 U bozich bojovniku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bohemia's Bohemia | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...foot is the pub U vystrelenyho oka (The Shot-Out Eye) - the name, of course, a tribute to Zizka's missing orb. The slightly scruffy venue offers weekly live rock, blues and alternative music and typical Czech pub food - that is, everything is bread crumbed and fried. Try Hermelin, a Czech version of Camembert cheese pickled in oil with garlic and hot peppers. The beer is cheap and plentiful - indeed, nothing costs more than $3.50. 3 U bozich bojovniku...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bohemia's Bohemia | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

...declines, breaks his engagement, but moves in with his brother and former financee, Valeric. Shortly afterwards he goes to work for an immense corporation called S.B.H., where he learns that his patron, the S.B.H. Chairman Lormier, is a grotesquely arrogant swindler trying perpetually to outwit the Managing Director Hermelin. Loyalty and coincidence commit him to Lormier's side...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Portrait of the Hero as a Bored Young Man | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...S.B.H. he makes two important discoveries: (1) the autobiography of a young tough scrawled on the bottom of a set of desk drawers accusing Hermelin of seducing the tough's mother and sister, and (2) the information that his brother Michel not only writes critical vignettes about love but also commands the wholly inexplicable devotion and admiration of almost every young person in Paris. His disciples have never seen "Porteur", as they call him, or read his vignettes, but they perpetually invoke his name with unfathomable reverence. The plot, which is obviously enormously complicated, forms about Martin's movements between...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Portrait of the Hero as a Bored Young Man | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...this description doesn't quite fit; disturbing notes cropping up. The autobiography out to be a fraud, the literary of an S.B.H. employee, but it is "applied literature", it is not fabrication, and it is besides a and powerful piece of writing. gross Lormier at one point forces Hermelin to apologize to his knees. Porteur commits when photographers release his through the press...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Portrait of the Hero as a Bored Young Man | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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