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...husband is a Muscovite, born and bred. Your magazine brought me so much closer to the life he lived until 1976, when he was able to emigrate. His future is American now, a fact for which he is ever thankful. However, the pictures of Mos cow, streets on which he walked, restaurants he visited, Red Square, took him back to a life that he has kept shrouded in the shadows of years gone. For the first time I felt I really began to understand what it means to him and his fellow ref ugees to be Russian...
...little we can do at this stage." The judgment is undoubtedly correct, but the seeming inability of the U.S. to influence events in Iran could have a serious impact on Washington's relations with other states in the Middle East's crescent of crisis. Ever since Mos cow moved to make Ethiopia its chief client on the Horn of Africa, the Saudis have complained about the waning of U.S. influence in the area. Says a State Department analyst: "The Saudis are taking a hard look now at their relations with Washington. They seem more worried than ever that...
Some 500 companies are locked in a desperate recruiting battle for a severely limited number of workers. The more esoteric the specialty, the keener the competition. The mere mention of the name of an MOS (metal on silicon) engineer causes executive knees to bend. In personnel offices, linear engineers and microsystems programmers are spoken of in awed whispers, as if they were deities...
Both face and soul seem as brittle and sere as the last leaf of autumn, and when he greets Anna, who has been in Mos cow, at the St. Petersburg railroad station, his only comment is: "It's good to have you home again. It's quite irksome without you." Vronsky, who has been on the train with Anna, is the opposite...
...darkest of London slums. His father was an alcoholic; his mother sewed blouses for 1½ pence each. Charlie's great character was a memory of that Dickensian experience, a waif in the tradition of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. Comedy derives from the Greek kōmos, a dance. And indeed, as The Tramp capered about with his unique sleight of foot, he created a choreography of the human condition. In classics like Modern Times, The Gold Rush, The Great Dictator, objects spoke out as never before: bread rolls became ballet slippers, a boot was transformed into...