Word: ilya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 6,000 demonstrators remained, refusing to leave. Catholicos- Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church Ilya II warned the crowd of an impending "horror," but he was hooted down. Suddenly the streetlights went out, and darkness descended on Rustaveli Prospekt, the city's main avenue. Waves of soldiers, supported by tanks and armored personnel carriers, swept into the crowd carrying clubs and spades. Some citizens fought back with rocks. Others bolted, trampling women and the elderly...
...mind that the back of his head is more familiar to audiences than his face or that he speaks Russian with a syncopated Estonian accent. Soviet viewers feel that they are eavesdropping on an intimate chat with such personalities as chess champion Anatoly Karpov, figure skater Irina Rodnina, painter Ilya Glazunov and pop singer Alla Pugacheva...
Peasants were not the only subjects ofportraits, however. Ilya Repin, the dominant forcein Russian art in the last quarter of thenineteenth century and perhaps the most gifted ofthe Itinerants, is represented in the exhibitionby his portraits of the composer A. G. Rubinstein,of his daughter Vera Repina, of Council memberSemenov-Tian-Shanskii, and of his close friend LeoTolstoy...
When Christopher Reeve finally wriggled out of his contract after "Superman III," Alexander and Ilya Salkind, producers of the Superman films, were left with a Superman films, were left with a property and no star. Replacing Reeve would not be an easy task...
...Later, in Yma Dream, Thomas Meehan offers a Carrollian nightmare in which the Misses Chaplin, Sumac, Gardner, Gabor, et al., and the Messrs. Eban, Ehrenburg, Betti, etc., are introduced to Miss Hagen, the actress: "Uta, Yma; Uta, Ava; Uta, Oona; Uta, Ona; Uta, Ida; Uta, Ugo; Uta, Abba; Uta, Ilya...