Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olympics from the weight of their own political and commercial importance. Are they worth saving? Yes, indeed! Although the image and idealism of the Games have been greatly tarnished, they remain significant as an expression of international cooperation and individual courage. We can only hope that the leaders of Russia, the U.S., and other nations, seeing that the Summer Olympics cannot be manipulated for significant political gain, will leave them alone. Meanwhile their sidekick, the Winter Olympics, squeak on by content in and saved by their own limitations. While they may never play on as grand a stage as their...
This cowboy was born Issur Danielovitch in upstate New York. His parents were from Russia. And, he says, "I never rode a horse unless they paid me." But in America, anything is possible. So to honor his work in such films as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and his own favorite, Lonely Are the Brave, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City inducted Kirk Douglas, 67, as its newest celluloid cowpoke, joining the legendary likes of John Wayne. The Duke might have been amused. After Douglas portrayed the eccentric painter Vincent Van Gogh. Wayne asked...
Ronald Reagan makes it without war with Red China-Red Nicaragua-Red Russia...
...twenty years. In the meantime, a full-fledged space race will develop, in which each side seeks supremacy in technological areas that would be vital to any ballistic missile defense. And while the U.S. may hold a temporary lead in space technology, it is also vastly more dependent than Russia on satellites for communications and reconnaissance because of its wide-flung network of submarines, bomber bases, and other defense installations...
...ever-bending posture, the gestures, the accent, never let the audience remember the actor's true age of 21. Sabath says he uses his grandfather, who died when Sabath was only seven, as a role model for playing Tevye. Like Tevye, Sabath's grandfather was a dairymen in Russia, who came to America in the early twentieth century. Unlike Tevye, and fortunately as well, Sabath's grandfather left the Ukraine without being forced to leave...