"Even the city's most ardent fans don't quite maintain the old saw, the "Paris of the East." That was Bucharest's nick…"

"Like more than half the traffic lights in Bucharest, this one on the busy corner of Boulevard Nicolae Balcescu is dea…"

"And food lines? At least the queues are for food, say Rumanians, savoring their first beefburgers in memory. Ceausesc…"

"I am standing by my guns, Mr. Schwartzer. There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, …"

"The escalating pace of the change that seemed graspable was indicated by a slogan of the Velvet Revolution: ‘Poland –…"

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind tha…"

"Little Paris," as Bucharest was once called, became "Ceaușwitz."

"I went out onto the streets, expecting to see a nervous city that had recently been at war. But something didn't add …"

"In days too long ago now to remember, Romania was a breadbasket and among the largest corn producers in the world, an…"

"Bucharest must have been a beautiful city once. It is now in a state of mouldering decay. The big houses on leafy bou…"