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Such incidents are being closely examined for what they reveal about Gorbachev, a stocky, balding man with a wine-colored birthmark on his forehead.* Trained as a lawyer, he is the first Soviet leader born after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the best educated since Lenin. His speech underscores his upbringing: his mastery of Russian grammar is superior to that of most of his Kremlin predecessors. He is the exemplar of the New Guard, which represents a generation raised after the Stalinist horrors and for which the catastrophe of World War II is an adolescent memory. Though much about Gorbachev...
...fight the sense of unreality induced by a comfortable childhood, Arbus would ride the subway for hours at at time to observe the freaks of everyday life, the albino messenger boy, a girl with a purple birthmark. She continued to fight what she thought was a sheltered life by planting herself in unpleasant situations. When her husband Allan received training as an army photographer, her inexperienced hand took up the camera. Her first subject was the bare lightbulb hanging from their ceiling. Later, when a dead whale washed onshore in New Jersey, she took a bus there to photograph...
Canadian officials had a chance to size up the Kremlin's rising young star when Gorbachev led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa in May 1983. A balding man of medium height with a birthmark on his forehead that is airbrushed out of official portraits, Gorbachev exudes confidence, authority and a willingness to learn. As he traveled to Ontario and Alberta visiting large family-owned farms and agricultural processing plants, Gorbachev repeatedly asked questions about Western farming techniques...
...Vittorio Taviani have explored the themes and feelings of the Italian left. But their work is no forced march of socialist stereotypes. Like the characters in the Tavianis' Allonsanfan and Padre Padrone, the people of San Martino never surrender their luxuriant individuality. One young woman with a large birthmark on her cheek and a mischievous smile in her eyes tells a virginal girlfriend: "You don't know what it's like to be ugly and still feel beautiful." An angel-faced teen-age boy, whose ardor for Fascism amounts almost to sexual hysteria, is shot by some...
...scholarly man of 69, his face blemished by a large purple birthmark, Fang is not a scientist. He was an editor at China's leading publishing house, the Shanghai-based Commercial Press, before joining the Communist Party in 1936. A military commissar during World War II, he worked his way up through a series of economic posts to become Vice Minister of Finance in 1953, coordinator of China's North Viet Nam aid program in 1956, and director of China's entire foreign aid program during the 1960s. A protege of Premier Chou Enlai, Fang managed...