Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Advertising Sales Director, Northern Europe: Christopher Manning...
...more exotic hybrids was formed by Lyudmila Vartazarova, a grandmother of four whose strategy involved merging her Socialist Party of the Working People, based in Moscow, with a group of Cossack monarchists from the south, a loose coalition of oil executives from western Siberia and a group from the northern republic of Karelia. The resulting clash of ideologies ignited dissent among reform- minded supporters, eventually robbing Vartazarova's Fatherland Alliance of a place on the ballot...
Until the early 1980s, few Japanese were eager to learn about events like Unit 731's activities in Manchuria, a region in northern China conquered and governed by the Japanese army from 1932 to 1945. Untold thousands of Russians, Koreans and Chinese suspected of anti-Japanese activities were brought to the ! Unit 731 base at Pinfang, near Harbin. Clinically referred to as maruta, or "logs," they were initially treated well since the experiments required healthy subjects. Eventually, however, some of the prisoners were infected with contagious diseases -- typhoid, tetanus, anthrax, syphilis -- or poisoned with mustard gas; others, stripped and tied...
Disputes between architects and curators arose frequently during construction. One of the worst involved the wall colors in the exhibition space for Northern European 17th century paintings. Pei wanted beige or off- white, he says, because "neutral-colored walls go with any colors in the paintings." But the curators insisted on stronger tones. The dispute grew so acrimonious that one curator is reported by several observers to have referred repeatedly to Pei, behind his back, as "that slant-eyed little Chinaman...
Proulx (rhymes with true) is 58, a tough, rooted Vermonter. She dropped out of graduate school years ago and fetched up in a bare cabin in the northern end of the state. She and a friend fished, hunted and foraged to feed themselves. Living that way "makes you very alert and aware of everything around you, from tree branches and wild mushrooms to animal tracks," Proulx says. "It's excellent training for the eye. Most of us stagger around deaf and blind...