Word: belovedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PYOTR BELOV, Tverskoi Boulevard 11, Moscow. Twenty-two allegorical works about Stalin's reign of terror, by the theater artist Pyotr Belov (1929-88). Among the most damning: one portraying antlike columns of Gulag prisoners emerging from a pack of Belomor cigarettes -- a reference to the forced labor that built the Belomor canal -- and another showing Stalin up to his boots in a sea of dandelions imprinted with the faces of his victims...
...life. Many of these critics belong to the Writers' Union of the Russian Federal Republic, the largest of the U.S.S.R.'s 15 constituent republics. The literary monthly Nash Sovremennik has denounced rock music and beauty pageants as demeaning influences on Russian culture. Such writers as Yuri Bondarev and Vasily Belov have attacked the de-Stalinization process for defaming a period when, despite Stalin's tyranny, the Soviet Union became a world power...
...century shipwreck, when something glistened near him in the sand. A plain gold ring, the find seemed unexceptional at first in a treasure site scattered with gold doubloons, pieces of eight and other booty. But then a crew member noticed the inscription inside the ring: "In memory of my belov'd brother, Capt. John Drew, drown'd 11 Jan. 1798, aged 47." The ring had belonged to Captain James Drew, who died just four months later when his own vessel, the De Braak, sank two miles from Lewes, Del., during a storm. This meant Amaral, 35, had proof...