Word: babushkas
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...Genie in Disney's "Aladdin." In deciding on a persona for the housekeeping job Miranda advertises, he and his make up-wizard brother (Harvey Fierstein) run through a list of accents and outfits in a ridiculous procession a la "Aladdin" 's "Friend Like Me." After ranging from a Russian babushka to Barbra Streisand, he settles down as the matronly, English accented Euphegenia Doubtfire, and the movie's triumph is that Williams is convincing in this role. While it is still rather odd that Miranda experiences deja vu only at the film's outset, and the children never suspect...
...great deal of trouble reading the road map of their past. The notion of historical determinism may have been drummed into their heads in courses on Marxist-Leninist dogma, but they have never stopped believing that history moves in a circle, not a straight line. Ask a wrinkled babushka selling vodka on the street about Yeltsin's chances of success, and she will leapfrog back in memory over Mikhail Gorbachev's ill- fated perestroika to recall the doomed attempt by Nikita Khrushchev to break the stranglehold of the Stalinist past. An intellectual will delve even further into Russia's history...
...rubber stamp. That could make perestroika all the more endearing to Americans, who have a special affinity for revolutions that involve tax revolts. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 65% of Americans said they thought superpower relations were "entering a new era." On American television the dour babushka in the old Wendy's hamburger ads has given way to the svelte Soviet customs agent who shares a Seagram's wine cooler with an American tourist...
...performing the tale to pacify a difficult little girl (Annie Gustavsen) who has locked herself in a basement room, Happily, this device manages not to cross the boundary from charm to terminal cuteness, and while you may occasionally feel like a little malchik being tucked into bed by your babushka, it's hard not to fall for this charismatic production...
...resides next door, but they did not meet until nearly a decade after he moved in. "I was up one night at about 3, pounding on the piano, writing The Ladies Who Lunch for Company, when I heard this banging on the garden door. There she was, in a babushka and no shoes, saying, 'Young man, I cannot sleep with the noise you're making.' Now she and my houseman, Lou Vargas, swap recipes, and she brings him vegetables from the country." After renting the house's upper floors to friends for years, Sondheim has expanded, allotting himself an office...