Word: communisme
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...topples over the dead. One character prays for vodka from a religious icon with Lenin’s face pasted over the saint’s—and her prayers are answered. In vignettes such as these, the play paints a picture of Russia during the collapse of Communism that is fascinating and frustrating...
...members. The College ought to take on the responsibility of ensuring that each HoCo is able to provide a menu of community events on par with each of its peers.But how can we hope to equalize the resources available to each HoCo? The answer, comrades, is simple: Communism of the Houses.Wherever possible, the College should replace individual Houses as the beneficiary of House trusts. The income from these trusts should then be distributed equally among HoCos as part of their annual funding package. In those cases where trusts cannot be alienated in this way, the College should either deduct...
...Northern Ireland, alternated with low-brain savageries: the lashing tribal wars of Bosnia, Somalia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh . . . The list of conflicts went on and on, like a vicious geography lesson. The euphoria that had attended the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of communism and the end of the cold war had some seers announcing that amid instant global communications, the ''end of history'' had arrived in the triumph of free-market democracy. But the brilliant moment faded, and left a sinister aftermath. The shadow was evident last week in Russia, where the followers...
...with a dirty war going on, outbursts of neo-conservative social injustice everywhere, and a pervading sense of capitalist malaise—where are the films that mirror our cultural situations in the manner of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” as a metaphor for Communism? The beginning of the AIDS crisis and the rise of new reproductive technologies set off waves of nutty horror films that took our collective fears and misplaced anxieties and made them mythic —and in so doing exposed a peculiar kind of American cultural psychosis. Obsessed with life...
...heart, he launches into a song about a girl who is popular with the boys because she is a model worker. "We call it juche music," he says. North Korea saw how rock music and other decadent Western art forms played a role in the demise of communism in Eastern Europe, and it doesn't intend to make the same mistake. "Countries like the U.S. are trying to collapse our countries through media and music," says Choe...