Word: borodine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parents who adopt special-needs children speak of the rewards as often as the difficulties. Says Sam Borodin of Philadelphia, who with his wife has adopted three girls with Down syndrome: "They have given us joy and love back tenfold." But there are times when caring for a child with special needs can be too hard a test. In Texas a group of seven couples has brought a lawsuit against the state adoption agency, charging that they should have been told that their adopted children had been abused. As the children approached adolescence, they began to behave in a bizarre...
Shevardnadze's zeal is well remembered by Soviet Physician Galina Nikolayevna Borodin, a San Francisco-based emigre who lived in the party secretary's household near Tbilisi between 1973 and 1977. Borodin recalls that in the '60s and early '70s, Georgia was so rife with corruption that the only way to gain entrance to the republic's prestigious Medical Institute was to bribe the rector. "Before Shevardnadze," Borodin says, "everything could be bought or sold." She adds, "He was very oppressive, but he oppressed people fairly." Shevardnadze's toughness earned him some enemies. Borodin recalls an assassination attempt...
...Borodin recalls Shevardnadze as an obsessive worker who often spent 14 hours a day at his office. A fitness enthusiast and jogger, Shevardnadze installed an exercise room and a sauna in his home and threatened to fire overweight officials unless they got into shape in a matter of weeks. Shevardnadze has said his hobbies are beekeeping and tending his private vineyard. He is well read in the Russian and Georgian classics and has even scribbled a bit of lyric poetry. Shevardnadze and his wife Nanuli, a journalist, have a daughter Manana, in her 30s, and a son Paata...
...play Amadeus, deciding that the playwright, Peter Shaffer "will be sorry in heaven" for his work. Heaven, in fact, must have been an easy transition for Mr. B. Confounded by his problems, he consoled himself by announcing that on opening night, "Tchaikovsky will probably be there with his entourage: Borodin, Moussorgsky, Cui, Balakirev, Rimsky- Korsakov." From the evidence afforded by Maiorano and Ashley, there can be little doubt that in the celestial conservatory, Tchaikovsky regards Balanchine as his equal...
...group's adventurous repertory also includes quartets by César Franck, Fauré, Sibelius, Borodin and Nielsen. Starting in July they will regularly perform the music of Mozart and Haydn on 18th century instruments. But it is in Shostakovich that the Fitzwilliam's reputation has justly been made. Whether negotiating the complexities of the late quartets, such as the tortured, defiant Twelfth, or inhabiting the sunnier climes of the Fourth and Sixth Quartets, the Fitzwilliam's performances were marked by a clear, unforced ensemble tone, individual virtuosity and an unfailing sensitivity to the music...