Word: perms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier in the year, the newspaper Socialist Industry reported an "encounter" between a milkmaid in the region of Perm and a cosmic creature that looked like a man but was "taller than average with shorter legs." Last week the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda declared that not only had an Abominable Snowman been caught stealing apples in the Saratov region but researchers had "registered the influence of energies" at a site in Perm, leading a geologist to conclude that they had discovered a landing field for flying saucers. The same story transcribed a telepathic discourse between Pavel Mukhortov, a journalist from...
...Home Perm...
...vocalists were Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. Who, for a second-grade show-and-tell about a famous American (in which most of the boys dressed as George Washington and most of the girls as Florence Nightingale), showed up as Bessie Smith, in a big old dress and a perm like an Afro. "When I was a little kid," Molly says, "I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs...
...labor camp near Perm in the Urals, Shcharansky was locked up for 185 days in a 7-ft.-square punishment cell where he received food and water only every other day. In 1981 he was given three additional years in prison for "continuing to consider himself not guilty." Visiting him in 1984, his mother, a Soviet citizen, found him shockingly emaciated and in severe pain from heart disease. Last month, however, Shcharansky wrote his family that he had recently begun to receive better treatment and some medical care, apparently so he could make a presentable appearance in the West...
...built apartments in Brooklyn and Queens. But Trump the younger focused on the borough of Manhattan. In the mid 1970s, when real estate prices there were depressed by a recession and the city's financial problems, Trump astonished people by buying the old Commodore Hotel from the bankrupt Perm Central. He gutted it, put in lots of glass and chrome, and reopened it as the Grand Hyatt. Says he: "We expected to get an average of $38 a night...