Word: nikolai
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...warning seemed to confirm recent Western intelligence assessments that the Soviets had temporarily shelved the idea of military intervention in favor of economic pressures. The presence in Warsaw last week of a high-level Soviet trade delgation, headed by Planning Chief Nikolai Baibakov, made that theory seem all the more credible...
...last January in Los Gatos, Calif., to market Filewriter, a program priced at $9.95 that can alphabetize lists on Apple computers. Despite three classified ads in computer magazine, no products have yet been sold. But that has not discouraged the company's founders: Steve Grimm, age 12, and Nikolai Weaver age 11. -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco
When Shostakovich revised the opera in 1956, he toned down the eroticism of both the music and the text (based on Nikolai Leskov's 1865 story). It was essentially the same work that had fallen afoul of Pravda, but noticeably missing were the trombone slides, the most literal music depiction of sexual intercourse since the famous interrupted climax in Act II of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and the lusty horn whoops in the prelude to Der Rosenkavalier...
Almost on cue, three days after South African troops had begun to withdraw from Angola, Defense Minister Magnus Malan announced that they had captured a Soviet soldier, Nikolai Pestretsov, 36, in a convoy of SWAPO guerrillas and Angolan forces some 31 miles from the Namibian border. Two unidentified Soviet lieutenant colonels and two Soviet women also were reported killed...
According to the poet's text, Russian Nobleman Nikolai Rezanov sailed into San Francisco harbor in 1806 intending to trade with California's Spanish colonizers. Instead he fell in love with Concha, the daughter of the commandant of San Francisco. As Rezanov's ships Juno and Avos waited, he set out to woo the 16-year-old beauty. For his seduction scene, Bolshoi Ballet Choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev designed a pas de deux that was conspicuously erotic by stuffy Soviet standards. Yelena Shanina (Concha), a Goldie Hawn lookalike, and Nikolai Karachentsev (Rezanov), a dark, dour figure, embraced...