Word: nyet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back came a roar: "Nyet...
...comic ministrations of Director Mike Nichols can salvage this show. For whatever it may mean, Simon's two weakest efforts in 19 plays have a Russian connection, The Good Doctor, a kind of Chekhovian doodle, and now Fools. When next tempted in that direction, he should probably say nyet. -By T.E. Kalem
...suburbs. "Our dacha also needs a new roof, so my husband bangs and works all day while I cook meals on a hotplate and fight mosquitoes." Many vacationers relish swapping tales of the challenges of their rustic lives. But give up those precious days in the country? Nyet...
Nixon's world is a very simple one. There are Soviets and there is the West. The Third World does not exist, it is merely a set of Monopoly for the two superpowers. ("Trade you Park Place for Atlantic and Ventnor." "Nyet. Maybe ve trade Baltic and Mediterranean for Boardwalk.") Nixon rattles off lists of "Soviet conquests" as if they were playing cards or, dare one say, dominoes--"Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Mozambique, Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam." Ambiguities, complexities, individual circumstances--irrelevant; nationalism, reaction against imperialism?--mere facades...
...Nyet...