Word: blini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although visitors will eat most meals in their hotels, 150 restaurants, cafés and snack bars are being built near the Olympic sites and on main thoroughfares. The new eateries will serve European food, Soviet regional specialties and such national favorites as blini (pan cakes), borscht (beet soup with sour cream) and pelmeni (stuffed dumplings...
...Balanchine made it clear that he wanted not a lugubrious memorial, but a joyous, entertaining celebration of Stravinsky's art and spirit. "In Russia we don't cry when a person dies," said Balanchine. "We are happy. We go home to an enormous table with vodka and blini, and we drink to the health of the guy that died...