Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago as 1830, a czarist surveyor named Alexander Shrenk suggested a way of easing this imbalance by diverting the northerly-flowing Pechora River into the Volga, the great river that sustains much of southern Russia. But even in the 1930s, the Stalinist heyday of dam building and hydroelectric construction, the scheme was considered no more than a mammoth pipedream...
Trade between the Soviet Union and the United States exists of course, but at nowhere near the level reached during the heyday of detente in the early 1970s. Soviet scholars and cultural groups are subject to extensive restrictions when they come to America. And the U.S. won't sell the Russians the advanced technology they need to pump oil from Siberia. Somehow, there must be room for improvement...
...need not retire just yet. His charisma, his style, his sex appeal are still irresistible; he is still very much the enfant terrible of dance. And since his strong suit, even in his heyday, was never technical perfection--his particular brand of excellence has always involved character over precision--he remains a dancer to be seen and remembered and discussed...
...other cover is Frank Loesser's classic "On A Slow Boat to China," a highly unlikely song to be sung in the present age of practicality. Women are not about to let themselves be whisked off to points unknown in this heyday of equal rights, and the great romantics who might have enacted such scenes seem to have gone down with The African Queen. Ahh, well...
...trucks rumble by and the streets are dusty and dirty. It seems to be just another semi-deserted warehouse district near the city center--an environment far removed from the refined, the cultural and the artistic. And it is precisely here that Boston's equivalent to Soho in its heyday has sprung...