Word: raisa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nonna Mordukova). But even in a revolution that boasts of sexual equality, women will get pregnant. Vavilova must bear her child in the hovel of a Jewish tinsmith (Rolan Bykov) and his family. Their enforced intimacy sparks a cultural exchange: the commissar becomes feminized, and the tinsmith's wife (Raisa Nedashkovskaya) becomes a bit of a feminist. Outside, though, the Jew's children are taunted and tortured in a kind of dress rehearsal for Babi Yar. And after Vavilova gives birth, she must decide whether an officer's first loyalty is to her besieged country or her infant...
...occasion that it consigned the Bolshoi Theater, that secular holy of holies, to be the site of one of the major celebrations. The curtain, emblazoned with hammer and sickle, parted to reveal not ballet sets but black-robed churchmen, representatives from numerous faiths, state officials and, wonder of wonders, Raisa Gorbachev. "Your presence here is more than symbolic," New York's Rabbi Arthur Schneier told...
From his Spaso House residence, the President tells Hugh Sidey of the wonder he felt in his remarkable odyssey to Red Square. -- Beneath the summit ceremony was a more subtle form of posturing. -- What lies behind the impasse on arms control. -- Nancy vs. Raisa, Round 4. -- Reagan gets a nyet, not from Gorbachev but from a Russian clergyman. See NATION...
...news last week taking place within taxi-hailing distance of Red Square? One might have thought so from the TV networks' saturation coverage of the Moscow summit. The main event, of course, was the face-to-face meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev. The most fascinating sideshow: Raisa and Nancy playing a catty game of one-upmanship. But there was more -- much more. Religion in the Soviet Union was suddenly a hot topic for TV reporters, as were Soviet rock music and the effect of glasnost on the Soviet press. There were tours of the Moscow subway...
...usual, TV seemed more fascinated by small, vivid, personal moments than by the big strategic picture: Reagan dozing during a speech, the First Lady trying to get reporters' attention away from Raisa Gorbachev at the Tretyakov Gallery, Gorbachev directing reporters at a press conference to change seats when they could not hear the translations. In the meantime, the networks filled out their nightly half-hours with interchangeable feature stories and ponderously superfluous analysis ("Well, I've been thinking about the cold war, Tom," began a John Chancellor commentary; snores followed...