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...shift in time and perspective effectively symbolizes the stealthy passing of the years: one day you look up and find your child almost grown, your career at its peak and a strange emptiness in your heart. In Katerina's case, the void is filled when she meets Gosha (Alexei Batalov), a magical figure on the order of the Alan Bates character in An Unmarried Woman. The difference is that he has none of the latter's squishy glamour. Gosha is a workingman, an upholder of traditional male values, however humorously he states them, and a man who insists...
Indeed, the only sure bet at the World Championships was the triumph of the Soviet duo. Within seconds after Vorobieva and Lisovski took the ice, their claim was clear to the legacy of Irina Rodnina and her two successive partners, Alexei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, as well as that of Ljudmila and Oleg Protopopov. The liquid balletic expressiveness, the finesse and harmony that is the hallmark of Russian pairs skating has been handed down intact to the latest heirs. Vorobieva and Lisovski took a comfortable lead after the short program, two minutes of compulsory jumps and lifts. Even a near...
...actively spread the word, for example, that the U.S. was responsible for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro. In addition, events often have to be filtered through an ideological bureaucracy before they are reported. For example, news of the death of former Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin was withheld for 36 hours by TASS and Radio Moscow. Even Soviet citizens heard the news first on Western broadcasts...
...recent years Brezhnev has gained enough authority and prestige to put his portrait and quotations on propaganda posters all across the U.S.S.R. Yet so far he has avoided responsibility for chronic failures of the economy and agriculture. That onus he thrust upon other comrades, particularly his longtime partner Alexei Kosygin, who died in late December, less than two months after his resignation as Premier. Now more than ever, the gerontocratic leadership of the U.S.S.R. is dominated by Brezhnev appointees and protégés, with neither an obvious heir nor a challenger in their midst...
...Alexei Kosygin, 76, pragmatic politician-engineer who, with Leonid Brezhnev, wrested power from Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 and served as Premier until, in failing health, he quit his post last October...