Word: cossack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mayer went West in 1918, just after the first wave of Hollywood pioneers. He had been on the move since his threadbare family left its Cossack-ridden Ukrainian village in the late 1880s and a few years later settled in St. John, New Brunswick. There his father Jacob Mayer struggled as a junkman. Little Louie, half starved, battled anti-Semitic bullies and helped his father--whom he despised as much as he adored his mother. Escaping St. John in his late teens, he moved on to Boston, where he discovered the Nickelodeon, the embryo of the moving-picture business. Quick...
Trotting onto the stage wearing dark pants and a white, cossack-style shirt with frilly cuffs, Helfgott, who still takes a daily mix of antipsychotic drugs, smiled giddily as applause washed over him, then launched into a formidable program of Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt and Beethoven. He hummed, groaned and jabbered as he played, his head bent low over the keyboard, his fingers flying. At times he sang a melodic line instead of playing it. Midway through a Chopin Ballade he began picking nervously at his shirt and lost the melody altogether...
...like an out-of-body experience." It was a sad parenthesis in the wacky competition that combines hotdogging exhibitionism with athletic zeal. American Liz McIntyre, a Dartmouth graduate, captured a silver medal by executing a Daffy Twister jump, while winner Stine Lise Hattestad of Norway performed a Cossack -- an aerial ballet split on skis, as did the men's mogul winner, Canadian Jean-Luc Brassard. Each race was introduced by a recorded rooster's loud "cock-a-doodle...
...which were able to collect the 100,000 signatures necessary to qualify for the ballot. One of the more exotic hybrids was formed by Lyudmila Vartazarova, a grandmother of four whose strategy involved merging her Socialist Party of the Working People, based in Moscow, with a group of Cossack monarchists from the south, a loose coalition of oil executives from western Siberia and a group from the northern republic of Karelia. The resulting clash of ideologies ignited dissent among reform- minded supporters, eventually robbing Vartazarova's Fatherland Alliance of a place on the ballot...
...missile cruiser Kirov that he would do everything possible to improve their living conditions. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov toured the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, lending a sympathetic ear to the problems of defense workers at a chemical factory. Back in Moscow Kremlin adviser Vadim Bakatin talked to cossack leaders about what he called his "common sense" politics...