Word: konstantin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down below. Given Krenz's hard-line convictions, there is little expectation that he will be the leader who will guide East Germany along the path toward social and economic reform. Krenz may turn out to be only a transitional figure, put in place, like the Soviet Union's Konstantin Chernenko, to warm the chair for a more visionary thinker. "The real reformers will take over power in the next six to twelve months," predicts Wolfgang Seiffert, a former adviser in the East German Communist Party who now teaches at West Germany's Kiel University. Others see in Krenz...
...MAIDS, Satirikon Theater, Moscow. In drag and wearing extravagant eye makeup, Konstantin Raikin stars in a rare Russian version of Jean Genet's sadomasochistic melodrama, directed by Roman Viktyuk...
...respond most strongly to intimate glimpses of lost love, betrayal by friends and alcoholic desperation, whether in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya at the Moscow Art Theater or in quasi-documentary scripts about prostitutes and gravediggers performed by the city's most impressive acting troupe, the Sovremennik (Contemporary) Theater. Says Konstantin Raikin, artistic director of the Satirikon Theater, where the Russian-language debut of Jean Genet's psychosexual drama The Maids is Moscow's hottest show and among the least political: "These days, a measure of a play's appeal is to be able to say that it's not only...
Gorbachev will be the first Soviet Communist Party leader to address the U.N. since 1960, when Nikita Khrushchev created an uproar by brandishing his shoe, pounding his fist and hurling insults. Gorbachev's sclerotic predecessors, Konstantin Chernenko, Yuri Andropov and Leonid Brezhnev in his last years, were too often tethered to life-support systems to venture much abroad...
...four leaders back before this one. I think there have been some changes." He had said in 1981 that the Soviets reserved the right to "lie and cheat and do anything else to achieve their ends." Since then, three Soviet leaders have died--Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko...