Shades of detail had not yet been sketched in, but the picture's message was evident. The boulder was Nicolae Ceausescu, and the people were trying to propel the monolith off a cliff. Staring at the unfinished illustration in New York City, a Rumanian guest of the artist Eugene Mihaesco remarked, "I guess we have to push a little harder." That was a year and a half ago. The piece and others by Mihaesco, who was born in Bucharest, have since appeared in Universul, a U.S.-printed biweekly circulated underground in Ceausescu's kingdom. And Rumanians did push, with all their heart, all their...
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