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...tyrant and village primitive--yammered all through the double feature, talking down the stars onscreen. At about 2 a.m. he would propose, as if spontaneously, "Let's go and get something to eat." No one said no. Everyone would ride 10 miles to Stalin's dacha at Kuntsevo and begin another of the booze-fogged, terror-soaked marathon predawn dinners that the Minister of Cultural Terror, Yury Zhdanov, had convinced Stalin were the equivalent of the symposia of the ancient Greeks. "These vomit-flecked routs," the British biographer Simon Sebag Montefiore observes in Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar...
...take to the stage, instruments and sheet music in hand. They are both veteran musicians with more than 25 years of experience between them, and it’s no surprise that they look calm and collected, as the emcee cues them to begin. As Froger’s fingers dance across the keyboard and the notes of Lee’s soprano saxophone fill the air, it is hard to believe that the duo had taken less than a day to compose the piece and less a week to rehearse...
...year, fresh out of a painful breakup with the girl who may have pulled you to the Northeast in the first place, all the while watching people trickle in from warm-weather intersession trips cracking inside jokes in the dining hall in groups of eight to 12, you begin to feel very small. You are a floater, a piece of paperwork for the house administration, and, more often than not, especially mid-year, you are the disappointing replacement of a close friend either graduated early or gone abroad. It feels immediately like a mistake, and you miss your old friends...
According to Kent, the architects, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, are still in the design stage. Construction will begin this summer and will be completed in time for the fall semester...
...those plans develop, Hwang says he will be doing work of his own. He’ll continue in his position as contributor and grant writer for the ’zine, but he also plans to begin a few new activities. His fellow members of Present! would approve—roller-skating, middle-school-style, is at the top of his to-do list...