Budapest Week - Volume 4 / Number 49

February 09-

1995-02-15

Article
Author
Jeff Gailus
Column
News
Title
Hungarians admit rights abuses
Cover page
Cover page title
RIghts and wrongs
Cover page subtitle
Government acknowledges abuses chided in US report on human rights
Page No.
3
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
MTI
Title / Description of the Illustration
On November 11th 1994 two explosives similar to Molotov cocktails were lobbed into the house of a Gypsy family in Gyöngyös. Gypsies are the primary victims of violent attacks by skinheads and police.
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3
Column
News
News Flash
Title
Money transfers faster
Page No.
4
Column
News
News Flash
Title
Yellow Metro closes soon
Page No.
4
Column
News
News Flash
Title
NATO prepares to grow
Page No.
4
Column
News
News Flash
Title
1994 crime figures down
Page No.
4
Column
News
News Flash
Title
Prisoners face abuse
Page No.
4
Column
News
News Flash
Title
Minority treaty signed
Page No.
4
Column
News
News Flash
Title
Investors want to meet PM
Page No.
4
Column
News
News Flash
Title
New CompuServe node
Page No.
4
Column
News
News Flash
Title
Journalism center spiked
Page No.
4
Column
News
Title
Horn fills finance posts
Page No.
5
Author
Simon Evans
Column
News
Title
152 mummies found in Vác
Cover page
Cover page title
Magyar mummies
Cover page subtitle
Anthropologists marvel over 152 naturally preserved corpses discovered under a Vác church
Page No.
5
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
The face of a female mummy found along with 151 other bodies in Vác. Other information is not yet known about the woman.
Page No.
5
Author
Lucy Mallows
Column
Party Line
Title
Coalition partners debate but stand firm
Page No.
5
Author
Gábor Vajda
Column
Profile
Title
Konrád lives on as an armchair critic
Subtitle
György Konrád, who made his name as a samizdat writer under communism, has retired from public life but still speaks out when he feels a cause is important.
Cover page
Cover page title
György Konrád
Cover page subtitle
Even outside the fray, Hungary's best-known modern writer is still a booming voice of conscience
Cover page Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
György Konrád
Page No.
1
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6
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
György Konrád.
Page No.
6
Author
Hana Lesenarová
Column
Regional
Title
"He was a cruel killer"
Subtitle
A former Czech agent hangs himself and leaves a tale of terror.
Page No.
7
Column
Editorial
Title
Official abuse, again
Page No.
8
Title
15 minutes of fame
Subtitle
No. 42: Elemér Csák
Page No.
8
Author
Károly Lencsés
Column
Opinion
Title
Why should we be calm?
Page No.
8-9
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Milorad Krstic
Title / Description of the Illustration
Caricature.
Page No.
8
Author
Endre Aczél
Column
Opinion
Title
The West's "Moral obligation"
Page No.
9
Author
Sarah Roe
Column
Economy
Title
Investors worry that Hungary could become the next Mexico
Page No.
10
Author
Morten Krøgholt
Column
Cinema
Title
Film '95: Hungary turns the corner?
Subtitle
It's Film Festival Week in Budapest. Last year Woyzeck swept the board, but the industry picture is not as gloomy as Hungarian filmmakers make out.
Page No.
11
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Tóth György
Title / Description of the Illustration
Award-winning Hungarogloom with Lajos Kovács in Woyzeck and the look that sank three thousand spirits.
Page No.
11
Photographer or Photoagency
Tóth György
Title / Description of the Illustration
Who better to torment Hungarian audiences than Russian baddie Alexander Porohovchikov?
Page No.
11
Author
Steven Loy
Column
The Arts
Title
From Russia with love
Cover page
Cover page title
A long love affair
Cover page subtitle
Russian conductor Yuri Simonov consummates his and Hungary's 22-year-old fling with a Wagnerian epic at the Opera House
Page No.
12-13
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
At a break during rehearsal, Yuri Simonov shares a word from the orchestra pit with his translator, Inga Gyürkyné Orlova.
Page No.
12
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
Sometimes rehearsals don't always go as well as expected. With state funding for the Opera House dramatically declining, most of the best instrumentalists and singers have gone elsewhere to command higher fees.
Page No.
13
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
Unlike most conductors of international standing, Simonov's style is as fiercely passionate as it is clear for the musicians.
Page No.
13
Author
Andrew G. Singer
Column
Eating Out
Title
Country kitchen just inside the big city
Page No.
14
Author
David Perkett
Column
Week's Picks
Title
Calling up the Ancients
Page No.
15
Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
The Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Page No.
15
Author
Andrew G. Singer
Column
Week's Picks
Title
The rage of a troubled nation
Page No.
15
Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
Natural Born Killers.
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15
Author
Tanya Nagel
Column
Week's Picks
Title
Strobl's evolving nature
Page No.
15
Illustration
Page No.
15
Author
István Miklósfai
Column
Review
The Last Word
Title
Simonov's thrilling ride to Valhalla
Page No.
21
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
Sieglinde (Mária Sudlik) gives a drink to a hunted Siegmund (András Molnár) in Wagner's Die Walküre.
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21
Author
Simon Evans
Column
The Last Word
Title
Where yesterday lives
Page No.
21
Author
Lynda Barry
Column
Ernie Pook's Comeek by Linda Barry
Title
I hear you
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23