Czechoslovakian

So they brought Ivan Passer, the great Czechoslovakian filmmaker who had done ‘Intimate Lighting’ and who really knew how to work with nonactors.”

It was Sandy Stokes — the sandpaper-voiced empty nester who had white shag carpet in her California living room and an uncanny empathy for the Czechoslovakian immigrants next door — who gave me the book.

Madeleine Albright, a child of Czechoslovakian refugees who became the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of State, died at 84.

The telephone connection goes dead, and Paulie explains the situation to Christopher: “You’re not going to believe this. He killed 16 Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.”

Plans to honor their 86-year-old chief at a special ball go awry for a group of well-meaning Czechoslovakian firemen.