Word: olga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent activities range from a stint in summer stock, where she starred in a Traverse City, Mich., production of Vanities, to a more glamorous gig posing for British Photographer Patrick Lichfield in nearly $1 million worth of diamond, emerald and platinum jewels. The idea for the photos came from Olga Rostropovich, the daughter of Conductor-Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who persuaded a gaggle of international beauties to sparkle for Lichfield. Among them: Princess Caroline of Monaco, Morgan Fairchild and Lindsay Wagner. The ice was provided by Harry Winston, whose army of security guards was as vigilant as Patti's Secret...
...Olga Maratos, a Greek student who was testing seven-week-old infants for her doctorate, went to Piaget's house one snowy day early in 1973 to tell him of her progress. "Do you remember what I am doing?" she said. "I am sticking out my tongue at the babies, and do you know what they are doing?" "You may tell me," Piaget murmured. "They are sticking out their tongues right back at me! What do you think of that...
...transformed Eleni's simple life, and bought out in her family a crafty brutality needed for survival. When the guerrillas wanted to take her eldest daughter Olga as a soldier, Eleni seared the girl's foot with boiling water and a glowing poker so that she could not go. A male cousin of Eleni's escaped being drafted by lacerating his neck with nettles and painting his throat every morning with diluted hydrochloric acid...
...another channel, Leon Trotsky visits New York City in 1917 to rouse the American proletariat. Burgess tells this story in the form of a libretto for a Broadway musical, complete with lyrics. Trotsky falls for Olga, a hardheaded party worker, while his wife cavorts with a wealthy socialist. Four hearts beat as one until the revolutionary's son is reported missing. Trotsky's life is changed forever when he is reunited with the boy, and the songs turn as sentimental as the story. At the finale, the hero chants, "Family's first,/ Love is completeness,/ Power...
...sometimes use for their 35-year-old state. Later, when Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren told the gathering, "Our hands did not shed this blood," a Haifa man, Meir Gabai, shouted at him, "You shed this blood!" and others in the crowd called out, "Begin is responsible!" At that point, Olga Greenzweig, the victim's mother, got up and asked that everyone stop the shouting. She also asked the Chief Rabbi to please stop. Emil Greenzweig, a reserve paratroop officer who had fought in the 1967 war, the 1969-70 war of attrition, the 1973 war and the war in Lebanon...