Word: raisa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AILING. RAISA GORBACHEV, 67, former First Lady of the Soviet Union; with leukemia; in Munster, Germany, where she is receiving chemotherapy...
After his resignation, Gorbachev suddenly became very popular in an unexpected quarter: among young people. He became an element of pop culture, a decorative curlicue of the apolitical, singing, dancing, quasi-bohemians. It was fashionable to weave his sayings into songs: in one popular composition Raisa Gorbachev's voice says thoughtfully, "Happiness exists; it can't be otherwise," and Gorbachev answers, "I found...
...Varenik's last meeting with the cia, everything seemed normal. He had recently returned from home leave in Moscow, and there were no signs of trouble. But two days later, he was recalled, ostensibly to discuss a new assignment. Four days after that, his wife Raisa and their two children were hustled out of Bonn after being told that they were being given a new apartment in Moscow. En route to the airport, Raisa realized she'd forgotten her passport. When she returned to the apartment, she saw that it had been ransacked by the kgb. Varenik didn't have...
...past; Lola (Valerie Stephens), the grandmother, preoccupied with the many men in her life; Maydee (Diane Beckett) the mother, a middle-class academic waiting for a tenure offer; Maydee's daughter Vennie (Valerie Stephens), who has just dropped out of college and wants to be a singer; and Raisa (Ethelyn Friend), Vennie's white "best friend," who plays the observer to the family squabbles...
...TIME 10 years ago, answering phones and taking lunch orders as the Saturday secretary for the Nation section. Last week, for the first time, he was acting editor of the Nation section and someone else took his calls. In between, he has written stories on everything from pets to Raisa Gorbachev, from the history of World War II to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Two years ago, our sister publication People magazine spirited him and his menagerie away. But life at TIME seemed so unfulfilling without our eclectic materialist that we enticed Howard back to the fold as Society editor last...