The Orange Velvet Revolution

And those wonderful velvet curtains.

From Prague Spring to Velvet Revolution

Three months later, the Velvet Revolution began in Prague.

Marigold's mad because I got her beau away from her back in the last town we played.

Havel eventually saw his ideas triumph in the Velvet Revolution of 1989.

A frayed top hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him.

She had heard him at the Library of Congress a few weeks before at this extravagant black tie affair.

Five months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia s Velvet Revolution, Poland had negotiated its way out of totalitarianism.

The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist Party members and others who wanted to bring about socialism with a human face.

In one room, which looked like a lady's sitting room, the hangings were all embroidered velvet, and in a cabinet were about a hundred little elephants made of ivory.

She wore a very purple dress, a black silk mantle with jet fringe on it and a black bonnet with purple velvet flowers which stuck up and trembled when she moved her head.

The Velvet Revolution, as Havel dubbed it, was sheer theater, a geopolitical spectacular that unfolded in vignettes, scenes, and acts, with cameo appearances by famous faces from the past, including Alexander Dubcek and Joan Baez.

The IRGC considers the Internet an instrument for velvet revolution (non violent overthrow of government by foreign influence) and warned that enemy nations have invested in this tool to topple the Islamic Regime.

Living here means that one mixes freely with anyone who happens to call themselves 'Arab' and the massive differences in currency mean that places that would ordinarily be inaccessible to anyone other than the privileged classes, hold their doors open.

Five months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia s Velvet Revolution, Poland had negotiated its way out of totalitarianism. But the Mazowiecki government faced a nearly impossible task building democratic political institutions while resuscitating the country s torpid economy.

PRAGUE The fifteenth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 1989, which brought an end to 41 years of communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, is an opportunity to ponder the meaning of moral behavior and free action.

Ukrainians demand democracy, freedom and the rule of law.

So chirped many in Prague in November 1989, reflecting the pride and the joy of the Velvet Revolution, but also the sustained effort that was needed to end communism, whose demise began in Warsaw the previous February.

A series of quot velvet revolutions quot in Central Europe, the dissolution of the USSR and remarkable events in South Africa and the Middle East have shaken the entire post war geopolitical pattern of quot negative stability quot frozen enmity.