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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Look Out for Your Faces will be performed again in Russia. Last week Moscow was buzzing with speculation on which of the show's skits, poems and songs had offended the Central Committee. Among the possibilities: > In one skit, performers hold up letters spelling out A luna kamila, a palindrome meaning "The moon has vanished." An official, hypersensitive about the Soviet failure to get a man on the moon first, might have seen this as a suggestion that the moon had vanished to the Americans. But Voznesensky also includes the line, "They stepped on its soul with dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Poet on a String | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

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