Word: emigree
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On his first summer in the States, Cooke drove West, in a car he bought for $45, recording the country's vast grandeur and roadside vignettes with a movie camera he bought for $22. (Some of his road movies are included in the PBS show.) Destination: Hollywood. He had written...
Looming over it all, however, is Arkady Gaydamak and his recently established Social Justice organization. Gaydamak is neither a politician nor military man. He is a 54-year-old emigre who started his career running a translation company in France and made his fortune in the wreckage of the Soviet...
6 Antigone in New York. , Polish emigre Janusz Glowacki has carved a niche as the U.S. stage's foremost writer on the East European immigrant experience, and he may be the most incisive satirist as well. Washington's Arena Stage impeccably mounted this odd lark, derived from Greek myth, about...
Harvard students streamed into Little Russia one day about 15 years ago, not to buy nesting dolls or painted eggs, but to check off an item on their scavenger hunt—one Nathan Schiller, screenwriter, Soviet emigre and owner of the Harvard Square folk art store.
When U.S. authorities in Iraq picked three companies last month to build a wireless telephone network for the country, they were pleased that no Americans were among the winners, a fact they hoped would silence those who charge that the Bush Administration is handing reconstruction contracts only to business cronies...