Word: fruitness
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...oppression, the Kremlin has released scores of dissidents from mental wards and reformed laws that govern the rights of psychiatric patients. The Soviets have also permitted Western psychiatrists to come to the U.S.S.R. and see for themselves whether mental patients are being mistreated. Those efforts seem to be bearing fruit: last week, the executive committee of the World Psychiatric Association voted to readmit the Soviets, who had withdrawn $ from the organization in 1983 under threat of expulsion. If that decision is approved at a meeting of the W.P.A.'s full membership in Athens next October, Soviet psychiatry will have scored...
Even with its growing popularity, the fitness movement still faces major hurdles. For one thing, it is difficult to maintain a healthy diet because of the country's chronic food shortages. Fresh fruit and vegetables are scarce, even in summer, and bread, sausage and potatoes are the staples of daily life. Moreover, Soviet doctors do not think the government has given enough attention or resources to the drive for good health. Dr. Vorobyev, who has written a best-selling book called Components of Health, advocates a "national campaign for fitness" and is working on a plan to set up kiosks...
...find one. And to keep the Western employees sane, you have to fly them out of the country at least four times a year." Because employees feel deprived of their comforts, some companies provide allowances, so that personnel can import such hard-to- find items as toothpaste, fruit, toilet paper and fresh vegetables...
...yards long, with sausages as plentiful as raindrops, so many you keep bumping into them. That's the moment when Soviet tourists get weak at the knees and begin to feel queasy, but they refuse offers to be helped out for a breath of fresh air. The fruit-and- vegetable section is personally devastating. Avocados, papayas, kiwis, some kind of citrus thing that gets cut into five-pointed stars, who the hell knows what they all are. We should do something about it, comrades. While they continue to wolf food down like this, good relations between us are impossible...
Take our mandarin oranges. I once stayed in a Soviet hotel with a Japanese figure skater. He wanted to know what kind of fruit was on sale that was small, sour and green and got scooped up into bags. I told him they were mandarin oranges. "They can't be," he said. "I know what a mandarin orange is." What could I say? Maybe they get specially harvested as buds just for our people, so we'll walk around with sour faces...