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...Borovik, Kondrashov, Ovchinnikov, Shishkin, Shalnev--sounded like a backfield. But this was serious business. They were the boys from Novosti, Izvestiya, Pravda and TASS, where most of the Soviet Union gets its daily reading. They were the outriders of Mikhail Gorbachev. Never before had Soviet reporters gone to sit face-to-face in the Oval Office with the adversary. The world has become a giant echo chamber. One arms proposal brings a counterproposal, an interview in the Kremlin yields one in Washington...
...Styron and Playwright Arthur Miller, on assignment from Esquire, agreed that Miami Beach '72 would be harder to write about than Chicago '68, which Styron covered for the New York Review of Books and Miller attended as a delegate. Also observing for Esquire were Soviet Journalist Guenrikh Borovik, who felt "the world does not need this much coverage," and Jack Chen, former writer for Peking's People's Daily, who sketched quietly in the Convention Hall gallery and noted: "The young people are very impressive. It is a good and beautiful America that they want...
Esquire again gets the prize for unusual choices. In 1968 the magazine recruited Playwright Jean Genet, Novelist William Burroughs, Satirist Terry Southern and Poet Allen Ginsberg. This time the Esquire group is to include Guenrikh Borovik, 43, former U.S. correspondent for the Soviet news agency Novosti and writer for Izvestia and Pravda. He will team with Jack Chen, 63, a Eurasian who travels on a Trinidad passport and wrote for Peking Review and People's Daily while living in mainland China from 1950 until last year. To round out this summer's roster, Esquire will have the services...
...February 1944, Comrade Borovik desperately appealed to the Department of Rubber-Technical Goods: 'Soska!' [nipples]. He was not answered. At the beginning of September and the middle, he wailed: 'SOSka, SOS SOS SOS!' Silence...
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