Budapest Week - Volume 4 / Number 49
Budapest Week - Volume 4 / Number 49
February 09-15, 1995
Author
Jeff Gailus
Column
News
Cover page
Cover page title
RIghts and wrongs
Cover page subtitle
Government acknowledges abuses chided in US report on human rights
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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
Author
Simon Evans
Column
News
Cover page
Cover page title
Magyar mummies
Cover page subtitle
Anthropologists marvel over 152 naturally preserved corpses discovered under a Vác church
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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.
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5
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.
Author
Gábor Vajda
Column
Profile
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
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1
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6
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Hadley Kincade
Title / Description of the Illustration
György Konrád.
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6
A former Czech agent hangs himself and leaves a tale of terror.
Author
Hana Lesenarová
Column
Regional
Page No.
7
Author
Károly Lencsés
Column
Opinion
Page No.
8-9
Illustration
Photographer or Photoagency
Milorad Krstic
Title / Description of the Illustration
Caricature.
Page No.
8
Author
Sarah Roe
Column
Economy
Page No.
10
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.
Author
Morten Krøgholt
Column
Cinema
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.
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11
Photographer or Photoagency
Tóth György
Title / Description of the Illustration
Who better to torment Hungarian audiences than Russian baddie Alexander Porohovchikov?
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11
Author
Steven Loy
Column
The Arts
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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13
Author
David Perkett
Column
Week's Picks
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15
Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
The Art Ensemble of Chicago.
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15
Author
Andrew G. Singer
Column
Week's Picks
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15
Illustration
Title / Description of the Illustration
Natural Born Killers.
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15
Author
Tanya Nagel
Column
Week's Picks
Page No.
15
Illustration
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15
Author
István Miklósfai
Column
Review
The Last Word
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