Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I told my mother I would be traveling to the Tambov region with an American, she got very upset. "Are you crazy?" she said. "Just think of where you are taking him. There's mud everywhere. You'll get bogged down on some road. There is nothing in the...
Toward evening, we walked through the chemical-factory housing complex. One food store that we went into was empty. There was nothing but cans of sprats - and packages of macaroni in one food shop we visited. "The store is empty," I joked. "There are just people here."
In School No. 79 across town, Principal Semyon Boguslovsky sat at a table with a handful of teenagers, each dressed in the blue blazer that most Soviet students wear. When Boguslovsky said free discussion in the classroom was possible on every subject, Volodya, 16, quickly spoke up. His face red...
Hazelwood appeared to be in control of himself when he boarded the Exxon Valdez Thursday night, March 23. But when his blood was tested fully nine hours after the ship ran aground, he had a blood-alcohol level of .06, higher than the .04 the Coast Guard considers acceptable for...
Careful, there. This is no ordinary statue you're adjusting, but one representing the father of the state, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the man who renamed himself Lenin and reshaped Russia in the Bolshevik Revolution. One crucial slip by workers at Moscow's All-Union Artistic-Production Association (hear the clang...