Word: perestroikas
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...best while recounting recent Soviet history--anyone can do that, and some are even more qualified, like Bill Keller, who holds Smith's old position as the Times' Moscow bureau chief and who, more importantly, has lived in the Soviet Union rather than Washington as perestroika has grown...
...another anecdote, one Soviet is explainingthe meaning of perestroika to another. Hehas two pails, one full of potatoes and the otherempty. Then he transfers the potatoes into theempty pail...
Gorbachev is blamed for the crisis in the economy. But the Soviet system for providing its citizens with the basics of life has always been a cruel and hopeless mess. Perestroika has been largely a matter of restructuring a ruin, a contradiction in terms that makes for a sorry spectacle. Yet the world is, as never before, invited to watch. Glasnost has led to a kind of reverse, and perverse, Potemkinism, a post-Soviet tendency to portray the situation as even worse than...
...university than a high school. That impression is intensified by the precocious self-possession of its students, who seem to have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock to a newly formed Green Society, gather to discuss the biological causes of altruism. They also enjoy unusual access to the world: in the midst of Conservative Party turmoil, Foreign...
...that Lawson, 44, doesn't have some fairly radical programming ideas of her own. Among the shows she is developing for PBS are a children's game show and a sitcom about a Soviet family adapting to perestroika. She wants to showcase more pop music and is looking for a dramatic series that would "explore the mood in the country, relationships between people in our cities and rural areas...