Romania's opposition 'wins' polls Dec 1, 2008
In the 19 years since the Romanian revolution, the left has traditionally shown more discipline while centre-right alliances have achieved dramatic election victories but have broken up under the strains of governing, our correspondent adds. Bookmark with. (BBC News)
Ceausescu meets Dracula in the ART's 'Pageant' from Romania's dark past Oct 24, 2008
Some hint of the play's texture, of its strengths as well as its weaknesses, comes from its full title: "The Communist Dracula Pageant - by Americans, for Americans; a play about the Romanian Revolution of 1989 with hallucinations, phosphorescence, and bears." Note the insistence on supplying precise historical data, the equal insistence on striking a faint note of whimsy - those bears. - and the implication, without elaboration, of a current, local subtext for this story of another time in... (Boston Globe)
Farce? Horror tale? History play? All the above, creators hope. Oct 19, 2008
With just over a week to go before its first preview at Zero Arrow Theatre last night, they were still scrambling to find the right tone and rhythm for this darkly sa tirical piece about the Romanian revolution of 1989 and the chaos surrounding it ... It was in 1996 that Washburn started researching the Romanian revolution for a grad-school friend's video project ... "It's not our intent for people to come away from it knowing everything there is to know about the Romanian revolution," Kauffman... (Boston Globe)
Tales of lunacy from the end of the world Dec 22, 2007
On the other side of the border the Romanian revolution of 1989 was started by a Transylvanian Hungarian, the priest L;szl; T. k;s. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Nicolae Iliescu, 88; professor of Italian literature at Harvard Dec 16, 2007
"On Aug. 23, 1944, Romania capitulated to the Russians, and my father dropped his gun and fled his country by foot. He did not return home again until April 1989, after the Romanian revolution 45 years later.". Dr. Iliescu, a widely recognized Dante scholar who earned doctorates from two prestigious universities but who still thought of himself as "a man with the heart of a peasant," died Nov. 25 of a stroke at Emerson Hospital in Concord. (Boston Globe)
Dan Iosif; figure in Romania revolt Dec 7, 2007
BUCHAREST - Dan Iosif, one of the key figures in the 1989 Romanian revolution against dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, died Wednesday. He was 57. (Boston Globe)
Central European Media Enterprises Appoints Adrian Sarbu as Chief Operating Officer Oct 18, 2007
He was a member of the first Council of the National Salvation Front during the Romanian Revolution of 1989 ... During the Romanian Revolution Adrian Sarbu made the first documentary of the events. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
