Word: eves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zosimova recalls in particular the New Year's Eve of 1942 in the midst of the bitterly cold first winter of the siege -- the winter that starvation set in and an estimated 1.5 million Leningraders began to die. "We were allowed to go into the city," she says. "I took two friends from the place where we were digging and went to my uncle's apartment." There was no food, but they begged a handful of flour from a friend who worked in a bakery. Then they boiled water, added salt and mustard, and made the flour into small dumplings...
...eve of both Russia's celebration of the 50th anniversary of V-E day and the latest superpower summit with Bill Clinton, Yeltsin came with a great deal to say, as well he might. He had just declared a holiday cease-fire-rejected by the rebels-in Russia's war with the breakaway region of Chechnya. At home his political popularity is at an all-time low-thanks to the continuing economic crisis and a growing crime rate-and powerful forces are mobilizing that could threaten Yeltsin's prospects for the presidential election next year. Beyond all that, there...
...polling, hundreds were dying in clashes between Mandela's African National Congress and its Zulu rival, the Inkatha Freedom Party. On election eve, bombs set by white extremists shook Johannesburg. Civil war seemed all too possible. Yet one year later, blacks and whites feel released from a 350-year-old burden. "I am excited, relieved," says Phambili Gama, a black engineer in Johannesburg. "Psychologically we feel liberated, even if many economic changes are still to be realized." Beverley Dalton, a white Cape Town public relations executive, puts it more directly: "My world is blacker-and better. The tension has gone...
Lourdes, like a Chekhovian heroine yearning for Moscow, has dreams only of leaving for the U.S., and this American may be her passport out. But Richard already has a wife, and in order to rescue his Eve he has to enlist the support of an acquaintance, a dull young English schoolteacher named Hugo, in a marriage of convenience. How the plans go awry and what consequences await the sultry Lourdes in provincial England provide one of the novel's darker, not to say drizzlier, ironies. As another character remarks, "In Cuba, you believe everything or you believe nothing. Because everything...
...young, lovely woman on the arm of a short, sleazy general. The soft breeze off the sea; the intermittent light of cars, winking along the Malecon; the Nacional above us, like a giant beached galleon: it was like a romantic's Eden. And here I was with the brightest Eve in Havana, and she was asking me to rescue her from Paradise...