Budapest Week - Volume 4 / Number 52
Budapest Week - Volume 4 / Number 52
March 02-08, 1995
Author
Julius Strauss
Column
News
Cover page
Cover page title
The long road to NATO
Cover page subtitle
Hungary's politicians are pushing for Alliance membership, but how prepared is the military?
Page No.
3
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
David Sterling
Title / Description of the Illustration
Despite limited Western training and some elite units, like the soldiers above preparing for UN peace-keeping service, Hungary's military may be further from NATO-quality than politicians here are apt to say.
Page No.
3
Author
Lucy Hooker
Column
News
Page No.
5
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Katalin Széphegyi
Title / Description of the Illustration
Budapest city council has promised a range of new projects aimed at clearing the air in the capitol.
Page No.
5
In northeast China, the graves of the dead and the songs of the living yield secrets to the 1,000 year mystery of Hungary's origins.
Author
John Nadler
Column
News
Cover page
Cover page title
Xinjiang Magyars
Cover page subtitle
Anthropologists are finding the roots of the Magyar nation among the dead, and the living, in northwest China
Page No.
6
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
MTI
Title / Description of the Illustration
Hungarian anthropologists unearth the carved figure of a horse's head while searching for clues to the ancient roots of the Magyar race in northeast China.
Page No.
6
Photographer or Photoagency
MTI
Title / Description of the Illustration
A statue in Budapest hints at the Asian origin of Hungarians.
Page No.
6
Women across the region are turning away from their traditional roles.
Author
Adam LeBor
Column
Regional
Page No.
7
Author
Michael Blumenthal
Column
Opinion
Page No.
8-9
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Milorad Krstic
Title / Description of the Illustration
Caricature.
Page No.
8
István Vágó brings style and class to imported American razzmatazz.
Author
Simon Evans
Column
Cover Story
Cover page
Cover page title
Let's make a deal!
Cover page subtitle
The American game show is here, but Hungarians aren't only contestants, they're major players
Cover page Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
István Vágó, the host of Mindent vagy Semmit!
Page No.
1
Page No.
11
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
István Vágó, host of Mindent vagy Semmit, keeps up a good-natured rapport on and off camera.
Page No.
11
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
Contestant Péter Varnyú stands with Vágó by the car so nearly his. Instead he had to settle for kitchenware, sponsors' gifts and a bunch of memories.
Page No.
11
Author
Peterjon Cresswell
Column
Features
Cover page
Cover page title
A fat man's folly
Cover page subtitle
A self-made billionaire builds his own 20,000-seat soccer stadium in the vast expanse of the puszta
Page No.
12
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Katalin Széphegyi
Title / Description of the Illustration
Stadler Stadium rises above the sand and Gémes wells typical of the puszta.
Page No.
12-13
Photographer or Photoagency
Katalin Széphegyi
Title / Description of the Illustration
Village life hasn't changed in Akasztó despite a local billionaire's concrete megalomania.
Page No.
12
Photographer or Photoagency
Katalin Széphegyi
Title / Description of the Illustration
József Stadler has become the county's largest personality since poet Sándor Petőfi.
Page No.
12
Photographer or Photoagency
Katalin Széphegyi
Title / Description of the Illustration
"This county had gone 2,000 years without a team in the first division."
Page No.
12
Photographer or Photoagency
Katalin Széphegyi
Title / Description of the Illustration
Construction of the stadium has cost Stadler a nine-figure sum.
Page No.
13
Photographer or Photoagency
Katalin Széphegyi
Title / Description of the Illustration
The finishing touches are added before the big kick-off on Saturday.
Page No.
13
Photographer or Photoagency
Katalin Széphegyi
Title / Description of the Illustration
A thirty-room hotel is being built to entertain Stadler's foreign guests.
Page No.
13
Author
István Miklósfai
Column
Week's Picks
Page No.
15
Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, conductor of the Hungarian State Orchestra.
Page No.
15
Author
Tanya Nagel
Column
Week's Picks
Page No.
15
Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
Painting of László Fehér.
Page No.
15
Author
Bob Cohen
Column
Week's Picks
Page No.
15
Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
Dulcimer player.
Page No.
15
Author
Andrew G. Singer
Column
Review
The Last Word
Page No.
21
Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
A stitched-together Robert De Niro terrifies his maker's bride (Helena Bonham Carter) in the stilted Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Page No.
21
Column
Entertainment
News
Page No.
24
Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
Two scenes from "My Baby Left Me," a short animated film by artist Milorad Krstic. The film won second prize in the animated short film category at the Berlin International Film Festival in February.
Page No.
24