Word: olga
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...effect is potent and compelling. Back in Moscow, where she is preparing to travel to Edinburgh for the Dorian Gray premiere, Kolosova describes the reaction of the 91-year-old former Bolshoi ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya to Bourne's Swan Lake. Too frail to make it backstage from her box, the legendary People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. asked for a message to be sent to Bourne. "She wanted to tell him that this was the future," Kolosova recalls. "That this was the way forward...
...China isn't the only communist country to count on its women. Think of Eastern bloc athletes such as gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Olga Korbut. But their male counterparts? They just didn't measure up in terms of Olympic glory. Even North Korea holds to the rule: both of its golds in Beijing have come courtesy of female Olympians...
...Tayfun Kaleci, a young, well-built fan outside an all-night Turkish bakery grinned at a parade of noisily honking cars cruising by after midnight. Turkey was the better team, he says. But in the final, he knows he'll be rooting for Germany - "Definitely!" -With reporting by Olga von Schubert/Kreuzberg
...play in “Blasted”?DRP: I play the soldier.RR: What’s your relationship with the other characters?DRP: I sort of come in about three-quarters into the play and bring war into the room. I never really interact with Olga [I. Zhulina ’09, another cast member]. It’s really just between Nick’s character and I. It’s unclear whether I’m a real person or a symbol or a figment of Ian’s imagination or maybe even all three...
...hours and no intermission. But the intense and grotesque nature of the script makes it easy to remain engaged even as the play exceeds a comfortable duration. The play opens in a hotel room, as Ian (Nick O’Donovan ’09) brings former flame Cate (Olga Zhulina ’09) back with him for the evening. Ian is a racist homophobe attached to his gun, and Cate a rather innocent girl prone to epileptic seizures. Their encounter quickly becomes sexually violent, moving from an innocent “Don’t put your tongue...