Word: mikhail
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...Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost reforms have provided an unusual twist on the old story about girls who leave home seeking fame, but wind up exploited in the big city. Eleven young Soviet women emigrated to Toronto in January, lured by the promise of high-priced modeling jobs. Instead they wound up working as nude table dancers at several strip clubs. The women, billed at one club as "Gorby's Girls," say they were kept as virtual prisoners in a locked apartment during the day. Eventually, a bar patron learned of the group's plight and called police. While the Soviet...
...began a long liaison with composer Louis Horst, who became her musical mentor. In 1948 she was briefly married to Erick Hawkins, a thrilling dancer who later founded his own enduring company. She never lacked for acolytes: Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who offered their classically trained bodies to her training, and the late designer Halston, who cosseted her and dressed her like the goddess she was in her later years...
...defied the government ban, the thousands of police, the scores of military vehicles. As an evening snow shower dusted their faces, the supporters of change in the Soviet Union thronged Moscow's streets to deliver a pungent political message, savoring the act of public assembly in the face of Mikhail Gorbachev's order forbidding rallies, and then tramped peacefully home. For what, then, had the Kremlin assembled an enormous security force -- to protect itself against its own people...
...thousands of Soviet dissenters march against Mikhail Gorbachev's rule, the West's message reflects a studied neutrality: do what you must, internally, but continue your cooperative and nonthreatening foreign policy. "We have privately told Gorbachev that what he is doing at home is a mistake," says a senior Bush Administration official, "but our own national interest demands only that he continue his new thinking abroad...
Clearly, the best hope for our country -- and the best strategy for its leadership -- is to steer a middle course between the extremes. Perhaps not quite so obviously, Mikhail Gorbachev has an opportunity in the wake of the referendum to take advantage of a new phenomenon in our political life: the opposing tendencies now at play tend to balance one another and provide a base for the evolutionary development of democracy...