Word: lenin
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...Elvis sent the Romanovs scurrying from the Winter Palace, Jerry Lee was Lenin triumphant - the shock of the new suddenly sitting, smirking, raving on the old throne. Except JLL sat on a piano stool. Sat at the beginning, anyway. Then the fingers at the ends of those long, thin, untanned arms attacking the piano with the furiously proficient ardor of a Rubinstein or a Rubirosa. Yes, children, I remember that performance as if it were from the best, clearest yesterday that changed my teen tomorrows. But Nick Tosches, Lewis' biographer, conjures it with an infernal eloquence I couldn't match...
...what Bycko says are "obvious" similarities between Warhol's prints and local eastern Orthodox church icons, or don't connect Warhol's famously reclusive personality with the ways of the suspicious natives. On display are more than 120 original prints and drawings, some of them - Cow, Shoes, Flowers, Red Lenin, Hammer and Sickle and Absolut Vodka - chosen to suit uncomplicated local tastes, Bycko says. There are also such Warhol personal effects as a snakeskin jacket, green-tinted sunglasses, a scrap of paper titled "Calligraphy Fragment Found in Pocket of Andy's Leather Jacket" and historical records mentioning Warhol's parents...
...there is a Penzion Andy across the street from the museum, itself on A. Warhola Street. A mineral water company has put Warhol's Red Lenin, Marilyn and Elvis on its labels. And a gallery called Endi (Andy written phonetically in Slovak) was opened by an occasional Warhol impersonator last year in a nearby village. All this probably wouldn't have pleased Warhol, who used to say he came from "nowhere." But the locals feel he is definitely from Medzilaborce...
...military is studying similar ideas to prevent a catastrophe at headquarters from disabling the whole organization. This is, of course, not an entirely new idea: as Lenin plotted the Russian Revolution, he mastered the organization of independent cells. What is new is the tools that allow strategists to explore the possibilities open to a modern group organized in cells and called al-Qaeda...
...That may be as apt a metaphor as any for the unique odyssey of the collection of atoms that was Andrei Sakharov. The life of the dissident Russian physicist - acclaimed as both the creator of the Soviet H-bomb and the conscience of his country - spanned the years from Lenin to Gorbachev, the rise and fall of Soviet communism and the triumph of physics. Who but Sakharov could so personify such an age? Now, more than 12 years after his death at 68, the remarkable Russian is the subject of an authoritative, entertaining and compelling new book, Sakharov: A Biography...