Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy has ignored these criticisms and continues to forge ahead with its cutting-edge dolphin program. Indeed, the Navy has even opened up a sort of boot camp in San Diego for its force of 100 dolphins, 25 sea lions and three beluga whales--the "Naval Oceans Systems Center...
...cramped Moscow office. Many are elderly women who wait for as long as an hour and a half -- as if "they were lining up to buy sausage," says a Memorial volunteer. One woman, hands trembling, offers to donate a ring that her husband fashioned for her in the prison camps out of a bolt nut. Another, barely keeping back tears, asks for advice about how to discover what happened to her father. She had thought he died of pneumonia in a labor camp in the early 1950s, but has recently heard that he was shot in Moscow's Lubyanka Prison...
...Sergei Kaledin's A Humble Cemetery, the pressures on the hulking workman Sparrow (Mikhail Zhigalov) include a legacy of family violence, a stretch in a work camp, virtual gangsterism in the cemetery where he works as a gravedigger, and a dangerous weakness for vodka. There are performances of enchanting sweetness from Anton Tabakov as a young co-worker and of feral malignity from Valeri Shalnykh as a mock-friendly gang enforcer. But the most memorable scenes show Sparrow alone with his cacophony of fears, climbing arduously up to a bell tower where he can hear the euphony of wind...
...real identity in 1965, they arrested Sinyavsky, along with his friend Yuli Daniel, another underground writer. Convicted of "anti-Soviet acts" in a celebrated trial that for the first time drew the world's attention to Moscow's dissident movement, Sinyavsky spent almost six years in a labor camp, Daniel five. Sinyavsky emigrated to Paris in 1973, and Soviet authorities reluctantly permitted him to return last January to attend the funeral of his great friend Daniel. In the following pages, Sinyavsky reflects on those remarkable five days in Moscow, on Gorbachev, on the Soviet character and on whether his beloved...
...Moscow I was a welcome guest. I had not experienced such a surge of love and warmth in a long time. Perhaps only once before in my life had I been accorded a similar welcome -- when they brought me to the camp. But that was given to me by those zeks, who, like myself, were classified as "particularly dangerous state criminals." They greeted me as a brother, and the more furiously the newspapers stigmatized and the authorities pressured Daniel and me, the better they treated...