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...Ivan wants more beef, so U.S. crop sales surge again

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A New Soviet Grain-Buying Spree | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...Sens' Interview with Ivan Shusikov has his unmistakeable signature: Day At the Office shown last weekend used exactly the same background. It seems to be part of his protest against the Canadian bureaucracy. In this interview, a disembodied voice welcomes to Canada a Russian dissident filmmaker, who hides behind a desk throughout the interview. He is afraid to answer the interviewer's questions about the political reception of his films at home, and their commercial reception in Canada where distributors have refused it "because they might have to buy Canadian short films then too." Shusikov scuttles at last...

Author: By Jean A. Riesman, | Title: As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...animal. The reading list is long and demanding: Socrates, Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Sartre, Emerson, Dostoyevsky, Marx and Lenin. Frequently the class dwells on the unfair ness of fate as illustrated by Job in the Bible, by Camus in The Plague, by Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. And by James Stockdale as a sorely tested P.O.W...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: This Prof Learned the Hard Way | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Salisbury last July, Artist Ivan Day-Jones sold out all his paintings of scenes of the brutal racial warfare that has savaged Rhodesia in the past decade. The boom is so great that a number of rare items have been stolen from Salisbury's Queen Victoria Memorial Library. One current bestseller: The Valiant Years, a collection of newspaper stories and headlines from 1890 to the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Relics of Rhodes | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...brokers and their clients. Fiokla (Barbara Bryne) is an accomplished matchmaker, but she has something of a problem bride-to-be in Agafya (Cara Duff-MacCormick). Agafya is a mer chant's daughter and a bit of a ninny. The three suitors Fiokla lines up are chauvinist piglets. Ivan Pavlovich Poach'tegg (Jon Cranney) is a blustery, pompous bureaucrat. Poach'tegg (sometimes translated Omelet) is only after Agafya's property, a two-story brick house, the walls of which he thumps to test their soundness. Zhevakin (Randall Duk Kim) is a diminutive ex-naval officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARRIAGE: Gogol Dancing | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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