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...where to look because they had planted the evidence. The authorities did not press charges against Popieluszko but continued the campaign by other means. Under the pseudonym Jan Rem, Government Press Spokesman Jerzy Urban wrote a scathing article in the weekly Tu i Teraz calling Popieluszko a "modern-day Rasputin." The priest, he said, held "hate sessions" in his church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: A Nation Mourns a Martyred Priest | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...dearly for her favors. Only a young man named Ulysses has the key to her chaste heart. He will free Erendira by killing Grandma-he will try, anyway, with a knife, explosives and a ton of rat poison-but the tenacious crone is as hard to dispatch as Rasputin, or the Roadrunner, or a nightmare of repression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Styles for a Summer Night | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...Lauren during her Russian Revolution seminar is which of its 11 students is the most attractive. But then Russel Bernard, the star of both the seminar and Lauren's personal musings, is murdered and his body thrown into the Charles, in a manner that bizarrely recalls the murder of Rasputin discussed in her last seminar meeting. And on this clue alone, Lauren, with the help of a roommate and an upstairs neighbor, turns detective...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: A Harvard Nancy Drew | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

...tour that Michael will do with them." Lest he sound too much like the last flower child to bloom, we have Attorney Branca to remind us that "Michael is very informed and aware of what is going on in his life, to an amazing degree. He's his own Rasputin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...right wing for diluting the pure, potent philosophies of Candidate Reagan. "Reagan has clearly changed," Viguerie says. "You just see him moving off to the left on issue after issue. The people who are doing this [to him] are basically Eastern Big Business Republicans." The main liberalizing Rasputin: White House Chief of Staff James Baker. His Texas origins do not make up for his Princeton education, and even worse is his management of two presidential campaigns, Gerald Ford's in 1976 and Vice President George Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thunder on the Right | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

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