Word: mikhail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MICHAEL JORDAN MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV...
Ultimately, the Soviet system paid for its sins. Only a few months before % the disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev had unveiled his new policy of glasnost, or openness. His idea was simply to expose the corruption of old-line communists and revitalize the party; the fear and anger triggered by Chernobyl, though, wedged that small crack of openness into a rift that eventually destroyed Gorbachev's power and the country itself...
WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE AFTER ENDING THE cold war and reversing the arms race? How about saving the planet? That's the latest assignment for Mikhail Gorbachev, having assumed the presidency of the International Green Cross, a new environmental organization that hopes to do for man-made disasters what the Red Cross does for the natural kind...
...Walter Pater wrote, then all movement and gesture surely aspire to the condition of dance. The infant in its crib, rhythmically waving arms and legs, is, in a sense, a baby Balanchine. A shaman of Nigeria's Yoruba tribe summoning ancestral spirits to the beat of throbbing drums and Mikhail Baryshnikov executing a triple tour en l'air are both paradigms of poetry in action...
...curtain rose last week on what could prove the final act in a drama of tragicomic ineptitude: the "vodka putsch." Remember the three days in August 1991 when a dozen communist leaders imprisoned Mikhail Gorbachev and seized control of the Soviet Union? After the scheme fell apart, one conspirator drank himself into a stupor, another shot himself dead, and a third made a break for the airport -- where he was arrested with the key to his new Kremlin office still in his pocket...