Word: refuseniks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author spends time at Big Mountain, Hopi territory still settled by refusenik Navajos, "way out in the Arizona desert, off the modern grid." A traveler who has returned from the back of beyond may be tempted to claim more acceptance by the locals than was really the case, but Shoumatoff plays it straight. He made some headway and won some trust, but he reports that the wall Navajos have erected against white wannabes and sight-seeing Anglo journalists is very real...
Figgis is a refusenik in every way. Even the neon glitz of his milieu, visual catnip to most directors, is muted. His Las Vegas is mostly low-wattage motel rooms and morning-after grayness. Cage, that most daring of actors, practically cha-chas through the gloom, high on the freedom that the loss of all amour propre bestows. Shue's character hasn't yet reached that heady state. She's engaged in a complex struggle between self-awareness and self-destruction. One has only the smallest hope for her. And none at all for the commercial fate of a movie...
...made this live recording during a triumphant return visit to Russia, which he had left in 1987. The time was October 1991, and the place was the recital hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Feltsman's alma mater. "It was a very, very emotional experience for me," says the former refusenik, who for eight years was persecuted by the Communist regime for seeking to emigrate. "And I think that it was a good night. I played really as well as I could...
EARLIER THIS MONTH, IT LOOKED AS THOUGH MIKHAIL Gorbachev had gone from being the new Russia's most famous and privileged private citizen to being its first refusenik, deprived of his right to travel. Then, late last week, he was allowed to fly to Germany for Willy Brandt's funeral. But he remains in trouble back home...
...Israelis, who firmly believe there is safety in numbers, the unprecedented infusion of highly educated citizens fulfills the Zionist dream. "Israel faces the threat of war, tourists have stopped coming, the U.S. Administration is less and less friendly," says former refusenik Natan Sharansky. "And yet we see hundreds of Soviet Jews arriving every day because they have no other place to go." Adds Simcha Dinitz, chairman of the quasi- governmental Jewish Agency responsible for bringing the newcomers to Israel: "Though we are saving a million Jews, they are also saving...