Word: ludmilla
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...play detective in his mystery of the mixed-up book, Calvino enlists a couple of readers: an unnamed male addressed only as "you" and a charming novel addict named Ludmilla, also known as the Other Reader. In the course of tracking down clues, the readers interview a senescent professor, an editor of a publishing house who talks like a rejection slip and a confirmed nonreader who glues books shut and applies a coat of varnish, thereupon producing pop sculptures...
...there ever been a more bookish book than If on a winter's night a traveler! Ludmilla saves herself from rape by thrusting Webster's International between herself and her harasser. And when Ludmilla and "you" wind up making love, seduction turns bookish too: "Ludmilla, now you are being read...
...asking the participating countries to press for the release of Soviet political prisoners. Sovietologists estimate that there are about 10,000 such prisoners. One of the most active organizations monitoring human rights is the recently formed Prison Camp Watch Group, which has members in three different concentration camps. Says Ludmilla Thorne, director of the Center for Appeals for Freedom in New York City: "The emergence of this Helsinki unit is a sign of the amazing tenacity of the opposition." The Watch group has even issued five reports on the plight of political prisoners that have been circulated in the U.S.S.R...
Altinnik was walking out in front his head bowed: Ludmilla was holding him by the collar with her left hand and using her small right first to pound his head with all her might. On the other side of the street, the policeman with the pants tucked into his brown socks was bicycling slowly, taking in the whole scene...
Sleeping Beauty. Russlan, based on a Pushkin poem, begins in the palace of the Prince of Kiev, where the wedding of the knight Russlan and the princess Ludmilla is about to be celebrated. In a pouf of smoke, Ludmilla is abducted by the wicked dwarf Tchernomor. The rest of the opera concerns Russlan's travails in trying to find her ahead of two other suitors; the prince has promised Ludmilla to the first man who can rescue her. A kind of Russian Siegfried, Russlan receives a magic sword from that singing head but in the end requires a magic...