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...shots of flowing lava, deserts and snow drifts suggest a wasteland, presumably Siberia, that, accompanied by haunting music, add to the sense of the impending doom of the love affair. The bizarre sequences involving a flying man form a stark contrast to the jovial musical scenes and make the film a surreal montage rather than a generic documentary...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Garden of Scorpions' a Generic 1950s Romance, Russian-Style | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

Mobutu still managed to cut a dashing if reptilian figure on the international stage. Resplendent in his leopardskin toque, symbol of his authority as a traditional tribal chief, the jovial dictator has had little difficulty charming nearly all U.S. Presidents stretching back to John Kennedy. Political friendships with a long line of leaders in China, Romania, France, North Korea, South Africa and Israel (where he trained as a paratrooper) made him a widely traveled statesman. Some were seduced by Mobutu's eagerness to serve as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in the heart of Africa, others by Zaire's natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving Fire in His Wake: MOBUTU SESE SEKO | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...crowd's jovial attitude kept with the show's atmosphere...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ABC Broadcasts From the Yard | 5/15/1992 | See Source »

...place: M.I.T. Student Center. The time: Eight o'clock, Tuesday evening. The atmosphere: Jovial, integrated singles scene. Music with a beat made for dancing. Respectable, somewhat subdued lighting...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Square Dancing at MIT | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

Make that long, long, long range. Hall may be the only person who is sanguine about Marxism's future. But that's no mystery to anyone who knows the jovial, square-jawed Minnesotan, whose deliberate step and stolid bearing (6 ft., 210 lbs.) evoke his earlier days as a lumberjack and steelworker. He's a rough-hewn American version of the Soviet bear, who would look equally at home in overcoat and shapka on the Kremlin reviewing stand with Brezhnev (his favorite Soviet) or in a gimmie-cap at a Fourth of July picnic in Des Moines. He mixes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last of The Red-Hot Believers: GUS HALL | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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