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With few exceptions, the skits are marvelously funny, but Monteith & Rand show their real talent in improvisation. They ask the crowd to supply a setting and a couple of sentences, and they do the rest. One night last week, for example, the audience put them in Moscow, ordered them to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Telepathic Wit | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Seeking to learn more about her new husband's country, Christina Onassis recently asked a friend: "Who is Dostoyevsky?" One wonders what the great Russian novelist, a master of morbid psychology, would have made of last week's strange marriage in Moscow. Would he have found a chapter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Just an Ordinary Couple | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

A throng of Western newsmen and Soviet reporters (who have yet to report the big event in Moscow's Russian-language papers) looked on as the newlyweds departed. The wedding itself was attended by only eleven guests, none of whom were from the bride's family. Like other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Just an Ordinary Couple | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Family sources discount rumors that the Greek government will nationalize the Onassis holdings to forestall a Soviet takeover, but they are nonetheless worried about what the Russians might do. "They are sure that one day the romance will be over, and what then?" says a family friend. "Will the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Just an Ordinary Couple | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

MARRIED. Christina Onassis, 27, Greek Shipping Heiress; and Sergei Kauzov, 37, former Soviet Shipping Bureaucrat; in Moscow (see WORLD).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1978 | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

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