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After arriving at their posh hotel near the United Nations, the newly liberated men wandered in and out of one another's rooms, exclaiming: "Prekrasnaya! Prekrasnaya!" (wonderful! wonderful!). At a press conference Kuznetsov declared: "This is just as incredible as if we found ourselves on the moon. It is difficult to get this through our heads. We still have not grown accustomed to free faces expressing good will." Two of the dissidents, Kuznetsov and Dymshits, then left for Israel; the other three are expected to remain in the U.S. Moroz went to a parade in his honor in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: From Gulag to Gotham | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Georgi Griner plays Ghenry Ghiggins with a Kiev accent, and The Rain in Spain came out Carl Stole Clara's Corals. Even if something were lost in translation, Maya Prekrasnaya Ledy brought 2,700 first-nighters to their feet in Moscow's Operetta Theater. "A great success," trumpeted Tass. But not everybody could have danced all night. "The Soviets did not go through proper channels," groused CBS, which bought the foreign rights to My Fair Lady from Authors Alan Lerner, 46, and Frederick Loewe, 60, in 1960. The Russians, of course, paid no one a ruble. But Producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 8, 1965 | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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