Stasys Lozoraitis, Lithuania's charming and able top émigré diplomat, returned home in 1993 to contest a presidential election after a lifetime spent representing a vanished country.
These films — "Man Is Not a Bird" (1965), "Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator" (1967) and "Innocence Unprotected" (1968) — may arrive as ghostly dispatches from a vanished country, but thanks to Mr. Makavejev's bounding wit they seem as full of unruly life as ever.
To visit is to encounter the story of this vanished country.
SWAIN GALLERIES "Sojourns -- Out Back and Beyond," paintings by Jerry Cable of vanishing country life and farm and domestic animal portraits.
SWAIN GALLERIES "Sojourns -- Out back and Beyond," Jerry Cable's paintings of back road scenes of vanishing country life and farm and domestic animal portraits.
adding: But I make a difference between bashing - bashing is the "foolish idea" that we are the sick man of Europe, that we are a vanishing country, that we are falling down.
From factories in Taiwan and Eastern Europe that churn out counterfeit CD's to teenagers in Scandinavia and Singapore who download songs from the Internet and "burn" them on to blank discs, the line between legitimate and pirated music has all but vanished in many countries.
He collected stamps that his father brought home from his office at Spencer Trask; stamps from now-vanished countries — Abyssinia, the Dutch East Indies.
Almost overnight, the pictures of his father that plastered almost every wall in the country vanished.
When Mr Yanukovych's government fell, Mr Kernes along with the region's governor, Mikhail Dobkin, vanished from the country.
The latter had one small but fine display of objects from Moroccan synagogues, now sadly almost vanished from the country.
