Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the foreign dignitaries were intensely curious as they then waited for their first face-to-face meeting with Andropov at a reception in the Great Hall of St. George, the resplendent vaulted ceremonial room in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Few foreign leaders had ever seen much more of Andropov than his face in a line-up of Soviet leaders on a reviewing stand or a meticulously airbrushed photo that shaded out a decade or so of his 68 years. Unlike other Politburo members, Andropov had never traveled to the West, and during his 15-year tenure as head...
There are few tales to be told about most of the men who rule the Soviet Union from splendid isolation in the Kremlin, but Yuri Andropov is a curious exception. As onetime Ambassador to Hungary, he has had more contact with foreigners than many of his comrades who have spent their careers at home. Now that he has stepped into the international limelight, scattered details and vignettes from his past have begun to emerge, adding both light and shadow to the Andropov portrait...
...exquisitely phrased. The space they evoke is closed, artificial, without horizon or other legible references to landscape. One seems to be looking into a box full of colored flats and wings-a marionette stage, behind whose proscenium the blobs and cylinders of color glow with shivering, theatrical ebullience. "Curious," as the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarked in a recent essay on Hodgkin's work, "that no one has recognized in Hodgkin a God-given stage designer, a man with a mission to the theater of enrichment and augmentation...
There was a curious pastiche of a show at Constitution Hall, almost as confused as the war. Jimmy Stewart read a letter from the fatherless son of a Viet Nam casualty, Carol Lawrence recited The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and erstwhile Starlet Chris Noel recreated the Armed Forces Radio show she had broadcast to U.S. servicemen in Indochina during the 1960s. During intermission, retired General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, signed autographs. The hardest working star was Wayne Newton, who flew in from Las Vegas and performed gratis...
...escaping the paralyzing effects of mass police terror and participation in the dictator's crimes. As a result, they may be less fearful, more self-confident and assertive, than the Brezhnev generation. Though the younger men are completely loyal to the Soviet system, they are less suspicious and more curious about the outside world. Better educated than the old rulers, many of whom attended only vocational schools, they are more aware of the shortcomings and the backwardness of Soviet society. At the same time they are more confident of their ability to put the Communist system to rights...