Word: coups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best minds are on Yeltsin's team now, and his courage saved democracy during the coup. People have to forget their quarrels in facing the coming chaos. And of course the commonwealth is now the only way to save the economy and to unite countries. The future depends on economics, not politics...
...Svyatoslav Fyodorov and the other Fyodorov, who opened the first private restaurant in Moscow and the first Muscovite restaurant in New York. I mean Mstislav Rostropovich, the great cellist who, mingling with the pro-democracy crowds in Moscow, was like a new Orpheus descended in the hell of the coup. I mean the 10- and 12-year-old boys, Muscovites of the 21st century, who are earning their first money by wiping windshields of cars stopped at red lights...
Ibsen might not have recognized his valedictory in Robert Wilson's visually spectacular and verbally stripped-down version. But this directorial coup of the year reinforced Wilson's nonpareil standing as a sculptor of stage space...
Ibsen might not have recognized his valedictory in Robert Wilson's visually spectacular and verbally stripped-down version. But this directorial coup of the year reinforced Wilson's nonpareil standing as a sculptor of stage space...
...HAND, OR WAS MADE TO LOOK AS though he had. Thirteen more are in prison, most in Remand Center No. 4 in the Moscow suburbs, which has been cleared of common criminals to house only the elite of the Russian underworld -- and the accused plotters of last August's coup. There they await trial on charges of high treason. If found guilty -- and several insist they were innocent dupes -- they could be imprisoned for 10 to 15 years, or put to death. But whatever their eventual fate, one thing is totally clear: the plotters have no rivals for the title...