Word: falle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vladimir Yakovlev, 30, a former journalist, has cashed in on the co-op movement by starting a company to collect and sell information about such ventures. Yakovlev launched the firm, called Fakt, two years ago and already has more than 30 offices in the Soviet Union. Yakovlev, who last fall visited the U.S. for the first time to learn more about foreign trade, pays himself 1,500 rubles a month ($2,400), five times as much as he made as a journalist. His most enviable perk is a company car and driver. "I spend a lot of money every month...
Glasnost cinema is good news for Soviet citizens, who go to the movies four times as often as Americans and ten times as often as the British. Today Soviets get to watch sexual barriers fall like dominoes in slow motion. Little Vera features a love scene -- 82 seconds of topless necking and a quick tickle under Vera's dress -- that has shot viewers' eyebrows up through their hairlines. By American cable-TV standards the episode might be tame, but in a culture as repressed erotically as it is politically, Little Vera is big news...
...Crimson opened its Ivy season with an 8-1 thrashing of Penn. The seasons may change, but the results haven't. Last fall, Harvard recorded a 9-0 win over the Quakers...
...garden is supposed to be accessible to "College groups and anyone in the Harvard-Radcliffe community" in the spring and fall, said Ellen Hatfield-Towne, the dean of students' assistant. The garden is not open at night because of the lack of adequate lighting, she added...
Maybe it's because the Crimson had a 7-10 record. Maybe it's because Harvard lost its top two players from the fall. Maybe it's because two of the Crimson players were suffering through illnesses...