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...1940s The decade begins with economic and military mobilization. Jobs are available as factories churn 24 hours. The war's end gives rise to the IMF and the World Bank...
...colors of the diner were the perfect setting for the ballet. The three sailors, performed by Joaquin de Luz, Ethan Steifel and John Selya, and the three women, performed by Christine Dunham, Amanda McKerrow and Jennifer Alexander, acted the piece as if they had fallen through time to the 1940s. Their acting was witty, and funny and their dancing was lively, stylistic and included bouncy jumps, the rhumba and a pas de deux with bar stools. A thoroughly enjoyable ballet, Fancy Free was a perfect end to a perfect evening of ballet...
...Angeles of the 1940s made an appearance at the Loeb mainstage last Friday night, and I can get it out of my skin. I want to be a scowling man with chest hair in a battered with Venetian blinds. I am nostalgic for a time and place I have never been--is there a better sign that a show has hit home...
Originally built by General Motors in 1942 as amphibious vehicles for World War II, these "ducks" now carry Boston's most popular historical tour. Although the outer body of the duck retains the unique 1940s design, the inside of each amphibious vehicle has been outfitted with 1990s technology. Automatic transmission, new internal wiring, added roofs and comfortable, cushioned seats have all helped to transform these personnel carriers into suitable tourist transport contraptions. The drivers, however, must still contend with retired navigation instruments like large dials, spastic speedometers and protruding gears...
...Tbilisi, where his mother Anna was a gynecologist attached to a local textile factory. The family home was a 14-sq-m room in a kommunalka--a communal apartment where kitchen and toilet facilities were shared by a number of families. He left Tbilisi for Moscow in the late 1940s to study Arabic. Another neighbor headed for Moscow at the same time--his future wife Laura. They were soon married and later had two children, Alexander and Nana. After graduation, Primakov became a journalist, first for the state radio corporation, then as Middle East correspondent for Pravda, the Soviet Union...