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...village of Fedoskino. There she found Nikolai Soloninkin, who holds the title of "merited artist" at the town's famous miniature-painting studio. Artisans of Fedoskino and the nearby village of Danilkovo are believed to have originated the genre, and their exquisitely rendered village scenes and portraiture remain unparalleled. Soloninkin, 42, spent ten days painting Gorbachev's likeness on a 4 3/4-in. by 6-in. papier-mache box that had been slow baked in a 212 degrees F oven for nearly a month, and then covered with four coats of lacquer. The artist, who worked from stacks of news photographs...
...darkly humorous, but the black characters are not developed beyond their jive. Father D'Arcy's mission is unfocused, his misadventures a blur, and his conversion from guardian of orthodoxy to radical activist unbelievable, even for farce. Breslin's populist reflexes and ability to throw a punchy line remain in good working order, but this time it seems he got indignant and forgot his story...
...recently as 1975, the Soviet economy was about 58% as large as its U.S. counterpart. But by 1984 that figure had fallen to 54%, and the gap is probably still growing. With his usual hard-boiled realism, Gorbachev told the Central Committee shortly before becoming General Secretary, "We cannot remain a major power in world affairs unless we put our domestic house in order...
...collecting. Says Israel: "So it was goodbye cows, hello salvage." Since 1979, the firm has grown beyond Israel's wildest dreams, allowing him other expensive sidelines. He recently opened a motorcycle shop that reconditions and sells vintage Harley-Davidsons. But fan-shaped stained-glass windows and ornate heat registers remain his central passions and his righteous mission. "If the Rockefellers or the Hearsts saw a library in England they liked, they bought it and brought it over here," he says. "I'm just doing the same thing for the average...
...side. Of those, the combined number of intercontinental ballistic missiles plus submarine-launched ballistic missiles was limited at 4,900. No more than 1,540 warheads can be on heavy multiwarhead missiles. They also agreed to a limit of 1,600 delivery systems (missile launchers, bombers, etc.). Verification procedures remain to be worked out, although U.S. officials feel their earlier breakthroughs on INF on-site inspections will take them a long way toward finding solutions...