Word: babushkaed
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...Noticing my picture taking, and, having just told a man that she is "a citizen of the world," the protesting babushka asks me where I’m from...
...walked on, past the great white pillars and the makeshift shelter, toward the next morning when I would enter the day along with thousands of other interns in DC heading to work. And if the babushka ever wants help with a petition or to organize an event, I’ve got her back. But for now I’ll put on that blazer. I smile at her. Behind her, a bumper sticker: “If you want peace, work for justice...
...corner of the picture by the mountainous ruins around her. A blind man sits amidst the rubble, unseeing of the immensity of the destruction all around. In the wooden city of Murmansk, back in 1941, razed in a single day by 350,000 incendiary bombs, a solitary babushka, carrying a trunk of her belongings past the forest of upright stilts and posts that are the city's charred remains, asks Khaldei, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself for taking pictures of our misfortune...
...subtly ironic twist. Other actors who delivered scene-stealing performances included Baruch Y. Shemtov ’09 and Benjamin K. Glaser ’09 as Hucklebee and Mortimer, respectively. The small-framed, raspy-voiced Shemtov has played improbable roles before, as in his performance as Big Babushka in “Slavs” last year. He delivered again in “The Fantasticks” with a brassy, over-the-top and yet consistently impressive interpretation of Hucklebee, an angry, middle-aged gardening-enthusiast father. Meanwhile, Glaser’s Mortimer, the sidekick to Henry (Jonah...
...have had a big nose or a receding chin. Even when enhanced by an artist, the photograph of the image on a rusty soybean-oil storage tank in Ohio could be taken to represent a hooded hangman, a Ku Klux Klan member or even a Russian woman in a babushka. When things as ridiculous as this make news, we become a silly society. William David Perkins Ann Arbor, Mich...