Word: bolshoi
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...fact, I didn't understand how truly monumental, and morally important, Reagan's anticommunist vision was until I visited the Soviet Union in 1987. My first night there, I was escorted to the Bolshoi Ballet by two minders from the U.S.-Canada Institute. The Russians were thrilled that I had figured out the Cyrillic alphabet and was able to read the program. The young woman on my left rewarded me with a smile-a rare public act in that terrifying regime-and a whispered encouragement: reform was coming. Glasnost and perestroika, she assured me, were real. The minder...
...chatty, constantly available, eager to see that the journalists who followed her were comfortable. "Did you all get some good French food?" she asked us at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris. She even had her staff push the Russian authorities to let us join her for the Bolshoi ballet--a pleasant surprise for journalists used to being kept far from the President or deprived of such galas because of his 9 p.m. bedtime...
...clothes. Just kidding. I mean, not really kidding! There's something a little intimidating about going to Paris. But I actually do have some new clothes." (For the record, she took along sleek outfits, including a fitted maroon velvet jacket from Carolina Herrera that she wore to the Bolshoi.) When she spoke to UNESCO she cited a program in Kosovo that teaches women how to start businesses and even how to deal with their mothers-in-law. "I don't have that problem," she confided with a smile...
PEOPLE: Annette Bening's hot European summer; Elvis Costello's cool new CD; the Bolshoi ballerina who may be too big for her own good; is there anybody not writing a kids' book...
...supposedly too tight tutu is causing a stir at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. The theater fired ballerina ANASTASIA VOLOCHKOVA last week because, officials said, she was too hefty for her male partners to lift. Volochkova, who is 5 ft. 6 in. and 109 lbs., according to the New York Times, called the Bolshoi's story "a myth" and said she had switched from ice cream to spinach and was as fit as ever. Volochkova's plunging necklines and friendships with rich, powerful men have made her a pop icon in Russia. "You have such a high opinion of yourself...