Word: gulager
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...hearts. Dismissed as pass, he endured the indignity of seeing his talk show canceled because of low ratings. But the success of the mini-series, for which the Nobel winner wrote the screenplay and appeared on billboards, may signal a new era of hipness for him. Do we hear Gulag Archipelago for sweeps...
...Danube-Black Sea Canal. But Judt also gives the intellectuals credit when they did get it right. He considers Dec. 28, 1973, to be "a symbolic moment" when "post-war Europe's self-understanding turned." That was the date when Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's exposé of communist repression, The Gulag Archipelago, was published. Once that shocking indictment of the Soviet system had worked its way into the general consciousness of Europe, Judt suggests, the West reached a consensus that there is "no way to justify public policies or actions that cause real suffering today in the name of speculative benefits...
...discover, is the granddaughter of the founder of North Korea's repressive state security apparatus Pang Hak Se. ?My grandfather was very faithful to the Great Leader Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il,? she tells me. Indeed, one scholar estimates grandfather sent ten of thousands to the gulag...
...second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass.? Kitsch denies the earthy messiness of life. And ?totalitarian kitsch,? he writes, outlaws individualism, doubt and irony, because they risk exposing the beautiful lie it is designed to sustain. The gulag, Kundera argues, is ?a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.? But in Pleasantville, of course, there is no mention of any gulag, only of children running on the grass...
...often feel like Omar Sharif from “Dr. Zhivago” while wearing a military coat (i.e. imposing and about to be sent to a gulag); however, in the current incarnation, the effect is completely different. The military coats of today are cut snugly and sexily and the detailing has become more couture than regimental. These coats can flatter most figures and are relatively practical for New England. This is good news for those of us who participated in the cocktail jacket trend of last fall and then permanently lost circulation to their extremities and for those...