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...tough lad." That was a necessity for survival in western Siberia during that era of Soviet history. Yeltsin recalled that during the bitterly cold winters he and his family in their communal hut used a goat to keep warm. "The six of us slept together around her on the floor," he wrote. Another of his early memories was the arrest of his father and uncle on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation" during a wave of Stalinist terror in 1934. The experience - the men spent three years in the Gulag - seemed not to dampen a rebellious streak that showed early...
...fairly small Loeb Experimental Theatre by set designer Ethan A. Davis ’10 was also impressive. Tables and chairs lined the sides of the room, creating the feeling of actually being at the cabaret. The action took place on a variety of levels, from the floor just in front of the audience to a tier at the back of the stage, and this variety added to the play’s effect...
...said of one recent and particularly inspirational trip. “All of them wanted to find Halliburton workers. And when one asked me if I was from Halliburton and I told her that no, I was just a Russian writer, she spit on the floor in front of me, and said, ‘I hate writers like you.’ That was one of the starting points, then, for the novel, and of course a scene that went into the novel.”“Absurdistan,” a story about consumption...
...doesn’t. With adaptation comes flexibility, a skill in which Quinn and Camero are well versed. The two got creative when it came to finding rehearsal space. Camero: We’ve lived in Cabot K entryway for most of the second semester. It has a wooden floor, and it’s almost the exact same size as the dance space we have blocked off in our set. The craziest place we’ve held rehearsal was a random little room in Lowell. The biggest thing is that we need dance space. We also practiced...
...Michael Cunningham, a freshman, lived roughly 60 feet from Hilscher. But he didn't know what had happened until he got a knock on his door from his resident assistant at roughly 8:15 a.m. The RA told him he needed to evacuate the floor. "The police weren't the ones knocking on our door, " Cunningham says. The group with Cunningham was told not to return to the floor but that they were allowed to move freely throughout the building. "There was a big feeling of confusion at first because we really all didn't understand," he says...