Word: lane
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Socialist victory ends the class struggle and wipes out the old "capitalist" contradiction between beauty and truth. We in 1994 may get a hoot from Ekaterina Zernova's 1937 painting of collective farmers greeting a tank in a country lane with bouquets, or Aleksandr Deineka's solemn image of Lenin (who was childless) on a country spin in an open car with seven children, thus signifying his fatherhood of Russia. Why do we laugh? Because we do not grasp how, in the words of Towards a Theory of Art by an apparatchik named G. Nedoshivin, once "the basis in reality...
...thick of Moscow's midwinter gloom, the pupils of Special English Language School No. 20 at Vspolny Lane in central Moscow have good reason to be cheerful. First of all, their New Year's vacation was extended four days to Jan. 14. During that time their classrooms will be painted and spruced up. Then upon their return the students are hoping to have some special English- speaking guests: President and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Children in the lower grades have been eagerly preparing a musical program...
...addition, signs collected from road-sides across the country include a stop sign, "Slow Children," "Tow Zone," "No Parking," "Clear Fire Lane" and, to continue the saloon theme, the front of a Heineken keg and bar mirror...
Dominating them is the Caesar character, Max Prince, played by Nathan Lane with such adrenal zest and unquenchable rage that his face keeps turning purple and his eyeballs all but explode. Lane evokes Jackie Gleason more than Caesar as he bellows and punches through walls. The difference, as Simon knows from having served both, is that Caesar huddled with his writers while Gleason demanded that the finished script just be slipped under the door...
After being quiet all game, the 6'10" Whatley swooped in the lane and dunked with just 16 seconds left in regulation. A foul by junior Fred Scott sent him to the line, and Whatley nailed the free throw to knot the score...