Word: katya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slightly reminiscent of Saul Bellow's Herzog, who in his imagination writes letters to everybody, Svetlana addresses one and all, including God. Her words to her daughter: "My darling Katya, my heart's blood, straight as a rowan tree, sweet as a cherry, what have I done to you?! I have left you all alone, my love, and how you must be crying there now, though you are such a brave girl and don't like to be a crybaby, my little one. . . . Let them all condemn me-and you condemn me as well, if that will...
...triumph of sentimentality, doom never really happens. Only the right dragons are finally slain. There is little dirt, little passion. Even the style is a mechanical stringing together of cliches. But the computerized formula seems to work. Author "K. B. Gilden" is actually the husband and wife team named Katya and Bert Gilden. They sold the movie rights for this first novel to Hollywood in a sliding-scale deal that could bring them more than...
...month she dropped in on the starlet-studded Cannes film festival, went on to Paris for a chat with Andre Malraux. On her current junket, she touched down in Denmark, Iceland and then London, where the earl in question was the music-loving Earl of Harewood. For the dinner, Katya finally chose that staple of feminine fashion, "the little black dress" (mascara, no lipstick or jewels). "Our ambition," she said, "is to become even more elegant than you." How had she reduced? "Tennis, the secret of a good figure. Diet? I never diet. I eat everything." With that, she flew...
...made full membership of the Presidium in 1957 (and got back her husband, who had been shipped off as ambassador first to Prague, then to Belgrade). Her daughter married the son of Secretary of the Communist Party Frol Kozlov. Until Khrushchev started taking Wife Nina along on his trips, Katya functioned as Communism's unofficial First Lady, accompanying Khrushchev to Peking, Prague and Vienna. In those days, Katya was a bit of a juggernaut-shoulders padded, hair pulled back severely in a bun, not a trace of makeup. But Katya had professional as well as social talents in Khrushchev...
...some point in her travels, culture began to rub off on Katya. She turned up at almost every performance of foreign artists in Moscow. Under Katya, cultural exchanges with the West have shot up sharply...