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...slash the number of weapons targeted at Europe in return for cuts in the British and French nuclear arsenals, which have not been counted in talks between the superpowers. As a sweetener, Gorbachev made a tantalizing but rather fuzzy and perhaps deceptive offer to reduce the number of SS-20s in range of Europe to 243, the same number the Soviets deployed before NATO began installing U.S. missiles at the end of 1983. (NATO claims the current total of Soviet SS-20s is 441.) The concession was aimed particularly at the Dutch, who had announced that they would install...
...hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata, in his late 20s, but as Nanuli once confided to Borodin, family life takes a backseat to her husband's work. "He's a true Leninist," she said of Eduard Shevardnadze, "a dedicated Communist...
...Director Scorcese: what can one say about a man who can go from Raging Bull to King of Hearts to After Hours without missing a beat? Aiming at a younger audience this time with stars Arquette and Dunne, Scorcese is sure to garner a loyal following among the under-20s rushing to get a glimpse of New York After Hours...
...Moscow University, is often at his side in public appearances, which is apparently a problem for Soviet editors. They run pictures in which she is standing beside Gorbachev, but they do not identify her in captions. The Gorbachevs are frequently accompanied by Daughter Irina, a physician in her late 20s, and Granddaughter Oksana, 5, giving Soviet citizens for the first time in years a kind of First Family to admire. However, Gorbachev's son-in-law, a doctor, remains mostly unseen...
Schwitters was one of the first artists to perceive that a culture writes some chapters of its memoirs in waste. But unlike other German avant-gardists of the '20s and '30s, he was not a political artist with party allegiances; he was utterly absorbed in the ideal of autonomous fine art. "Art is too precious to be misused as a tool," he declared. "I prefer to distance myself from contemporary events . . . But I am more deeply rooted in my time than the politicians." After half a century, Schwitters' constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides...