Word: alla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Insurgents had a field day. Victor Podziruk, a lieutenant colonel, beat a general. Roy Medvedev, the dissident historian, led in his district and is favored in a runoff. Alla Yaroshinskaya, a nonparty journalist in the Ukraine whose stories enrage local officials, beat four party members. Nationalism triumphed in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, where popular-front candidates won a majority of seats...
...head is more familiar to audiences than his face or that he speaks Russian with a syncopated Estonian accent. Soviet viewers feel that they are eavesdropping on an intimate chat with such personalities as chess champion Anatoly Karpov, figure skater Irina Rodnina, painter Ilya Glazunov and pop singer Alla Pugacheva...
...Account No. 904, after the special Soviet fund that received the donations, will help provide clothing, household goods and temporary shelter for the 92,000 people evacuated from Ukrainian towns near the dangerously radioactive plant. Last week's event featured laser beams, smoke machines, a henna-haired singer named Alla Pugachova and bands with names like Autograph, Kruiz and Bravo...
Festival of India Celebration: Symphony Hall, Ravi Shankar, sitar, and Alla Rakha, tabia, Friday...
...involvement in movies proved a watershed. Director Conrad Rooks, who was making Chappaqua, a counterculture movie with a score by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, asked Glass to write down Shankar's complex, exotic melodies so that six bewildered Parisian studio musicians could play them. "Ravi and his tabla player, Alla Rahka, kept telling me I was getting it all wrong," Glass recalls. "No matter how I tried to notate the music, they kept shaking their heads. Out of sheer desperation, I just eliminated the bar lines altogether -- which, of course, revealed the fact that Indians don't divide music...