Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ivan Strand Aspen, Colo...
Caroline is a mathematician who specializes in topology and knot theory. Husband Ivan is an executive at a New York City museum. He relishes detachment, irony and ambiguity; she favors directness, clarity and definite answers. But Ivan is more demanding than Caroline: "She could forgive a good deal of grossness so long as there was not emotional dishonesty, but he required aesthetic purity and was harsh about lapses in taste. He said that if something was shoddily executed it had unquestionably been shoddily conceived and insufficiently felt. This rigor in him, especially when directed at a well-meaning movie, gave...
Though Soviet officials are aware of the booming second economy, they generally ignore the dealings of Ivan the Terrible Capitalist. Major violators are sometimes arrested, and officers of the MVD'S Administration for Combatting the Embezzlement of Socialist Property and Speculation have infiltrated the black markets. But the Kremlin grudgingly accepts the underground economy because it fills the gaps left in the inefficient Soviet system, eases shortages and makes consumers' lives bearable. Collective-farm managers admit that often the only way to meet their production targets is to buy supplies on the black market. "If they tried...
...revolution. In Five Evenings, Mikhalkov tells the story of a middle-aged man and woman trying to pick up the threads of a romance they were forced to sever during World War II. And in his latest film, Oblomov, he tackles the elusive, lethargic hero of Ivan Goncharov's 19th century masterwork...
...book has been forced into exile, its author often follows. Solzhenitsyn was ostentatiously deported in 1974, while Andrei Sinyavsky, Joseph Brodsky, Victor Nekrasov, Anatoli Gladilin, Yuz Aleshkovsky and others were pressured in various ways to emigrate. Vladimir Voinovich, the author of The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, a samizdat favorite published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1977, was warned by the Soviet authorities in March that his life would become "intolerable" unless he left the Soviet Union...