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However, Katharina and her kindly lover, Dr. Bonfila Bezhukhovna Bonch-Bruevich (Marisa Echeverria '00), also make for an intriguing couple. Bonfila's sincerity and maturity don't match up particularly well with Katharina's crass horniness, but one can sense the sparks in their "opposites-attract" relationship, thanks to a surprisingly passionate lighting and musical love sequence. Plus, their prayers for vodka to a sanctified picture of Lenin--an act of hilarious blasphemy in itself--give Augustine the chance to bust into the scene as a hormonally-charged babushka with a bottle of liquor tucked into "her" panties, a moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slav-er-iffic! | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

Died. Professor Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, 82, so-so Russian writer (Recollections of the October Revolution), who advanced his Communist Party career as an expert on urban guerilla warfare, served Lenin faithfully as private secretary, survived purges and Stalin to become one of the U.S.S.R.'s oldest Old Bolsheviks; in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 25, 1955 | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

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