Word: galina
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Shevardnadze's zeal is well remembered by Soviet Physician Galina Nikolayevna Borodin, a San Francisco-based emigre who lived in the party secretary's household near Tbilisi between 1973 and 1977. Borodin recalls that in the '60s and early '70s, Georgia was so rife with corruption that the only way to gain entrance to the republic's prestigious Medical Institute was to bribe the rector. "Before Shevardnadze," Borodin says, "everything could be bought or sold." She adds, "He was very oppressive, but he oppressed people fairly." Shevardnadze's toughness earned him some enemies. Borodin recalls an assassination attempt...
...Galina, 43, a dark-haired and vivacious woman who is a doctor: "Gorbachev will have some trouble trying to oust the Old Guard if he wants to put his own younger men in. Unless he is very powerful, it looks as though we must do some waiting before we see results. Russians like to have a strong leader. As one of our poets wrote: 'The more you beat a servant, the more he will love his master.' Gorbachev sounds as if he is to be respected. He must be full of energy and have power behind him to have...
...GALINA by Galina Vishnevskaya Translated by Guy Daniels Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 519 pages...
...decades, Galina Vishnevskaya reigned supreme at the Bolshoi Theater. No other soprano could match her sumptuous voice and dramatic presence or challenge her vibrant interpretations of Russian opera...
...lover, who was in full uniform, crawled in after me. I put a thick blanket between us, and announced that we were ready to shoot." As the cameras moved in for a closeup, the director shouted: "Pull the quilt over your breast . . . Artem, don't touch her . . . Galina, your shoulder is bare again .. . Stop! Stop! His shirt is unbuttoned ... His chest is all hairy! Shave it immediately. We're making a film for the laboring masses, not for sex maniacs...