Word: potemkin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write about the Eastern areas of Europe. . If you write you know nearly nothing about the area behind the "iron curtain," I must suppose that this you know is wrong, because the Russians show to American and foreign reporters only a very little bit and those you know as "Potemkin village," the truth no one will know. You may ask, what is the only truth? This is not easy to say, but I will...
Died. Sergei M. Eisenstein, 49, Russia's brilliantly inventive cinema genius (Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Nevsky); of a heart ailment; in Moscow (see FOREIGN NEWS). Hobbled by Communist doctrines of "art," especially in his last years, he made little protest, even though his own great talents were emasculated by the state's demands...
Germans did not seem inspired to cooperation by the creation of Bizonia. Recently, at a party rally, bumptious demagogic Social Democrat Kurt Schumacher had shouted: "We Germans don't want to sell ourselves to either side, not for the Potemkin promises of Marshal Zhukov nor for the CARE packages from America." Apparently the Germans were not yet ready to contribute anything to the future of Europe except hard words and the hope that they might translate U.S.-Russian division into German nationalist advantage...
...part biography of Russia's first Czar (1530-84). It was written and directed by Sergei Eisenstein, one of the few men of genius who have made moving pictures. It is a great change and, many critics will feel, a great comedown from Eisenstein's early films, Potemkin, Ten Days That Shook the World, Old & New. Nonetheless it is obviously, and in every frame, the work of a great creative intelligence...
...When Catherine II of Russia toured her empire in 1787, Prince Gregory Potemkin sent workers ahead of her route to put up false facades on buildings to give a deceptive air of prosperity...