Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember the first time I heard that profoundly Russian, tragically all-embracing word priterpelost ((servile patience)). But it came to mind of late...
...imagery. This time it is Tiepolo. But the ancient crone sweeping and cackling, the commedia dell'arte clowns, the quartet of nude women gently interweaving in a dance, the men employing a variety of bird noises, the eerily believable copulation between a girl and a skeleton also bring to mind Cocteau and Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Diaghilev. If more explicitly violent and more frequently nude than necessary, Miracolo is nonetheless a fitting tribute to what was freshest and most original in early 20th century art. Recalling it, audiences may well end as Cinderella does, despite her tribulations, in Into...
...proposed pact was made public the day before Texaco stockholders met to vote on Icahn's bid to win five seats on its 14-member board, a crucial step toward a takeover. Counting of the ballots will not be finished for several weeks, but Icahn says he would not mind sharing Texaco with the Saudis...
Gorbachev may have had in mind the volatile situation in the southern republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which may represent a serious threat to his policies and his position. More than 35 people have been killed in four months of demonstrations and occasional violence over the status of Nagorno- Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Last week the issue took a surprising turn, when the Armenian supreme soviet, or parliament, voted in favor of annexing Nagorno-Karabakh, contradicting the position taken in March by Moscow party leaders. The vote also put the Armenian leaders in conflict with their counterparts...
...impresario behind last week's inaugural flight, James Stimpfle, has more than glasnost on his mind. The Nome real estate broker hopes to make Siberia a major tourist attraction, with regularly scheduled air shuttles and even a cruise ship. But Provideniya in the Soviet Far East has drawbacks: it has no hotel and only one restaurant. Cement mixing and reindeer-hide tanning are its major enterprises. The architecture runs to concrete boxes. Then there is the climate: only Eskimos may consider 30 degrees F in June balmy...