Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brigada S has an unusual sound that draws on several sources. As a child, Sukachev listened to black-market Glenn Miller and Andrews Sisters albums, and their influence can be heard in the group's Big Band tinge. In style, the group also owes a tremendous debt to the futurist poets of the 1920s, whose revolutionary verse inspired a generation with its early Communist iconography...
...rubles Westerners earn in the U.S.S.R. have dubious value. Foreign companies cannot send their rubles home or even calculate their earnings accurately because there is no accepted exchange rate. While Moscow says the ruble is worth about $1.60, the currency fetches as little as 10 cents on the black market. Some U.S. firms have got around the problem by persuading Moscow to allow the companies to export what they produce with Soviet partners for dollars rather than rubles...
...Yuri Shchekochikhin, a commentator from the Soviet weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta. So, you are heading off into the wilds of Russia? See for yourself how far the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have gone. An image came to mind of perestroika as a stalled tractor, sinking ever deeper into the rich black earth of the Tambov region. It was a common Moscow view, as if nothing new could ever come out of the provinces...
...plenty. Cooperatives and private farmers here had more varieties of meats to offer than you could usually find in Moscow. The bountiful scene seemed to deny reports filtering into the Soviet capital about food shortages in the provinces. Certainly, no one was starving in this land of the good black earth...
...that only about 10% of the oil from such a massive spill (this one totaled at least 10.1 million gal., perhaps 12.6 million) will ever be recovered. Some of the rest evaporates. But as the lighter components escape into the air, most of the oil turns into a thick black gunk that eventually sinks to the bottom. There it is joined by oil that first coated beaches but little by little washes back into the water...