Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swinging Senator, a couple of dancin'-fool actresses, a Russian-born ballet star, and what have you got? A floor show-if the principals are Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who went into action last week at the Iranian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The occasion: a raucous, boozy party by Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi in honor of the American...
...Howard Hughes had died on the way to a Texan hospital it was believed among wrestling cognoscenti that Hughes was engaged in a nuclear deterrent project with Clark. Since the "Skuzz-Bomb" can actually generate nuclear radiation through the process of exhausting his half-lives, Hughes believed that sensitive Russian radiation equipment would mistake Freeman's emanations from nuclear explosions. The possibility of deceiving the Russians about our nuclear arsenal's strength, and thereby ramming more favorable terms for detente down their throats, was obvious...
Bruno "the Italian living legend" Sammartino sprawls against the turnbuckle, the air knocked from his chest, the life gone out of his legs. Ivan "the Russian Bear" Koloff advances menacingly, his bald head and tattooed arms proclaiming unredeemable evil. With the 18-foot chain that binds them together, Koloff begins to strangle the World Champion of the east coast. He twists the Russian chain elaborately around Bruno's powerful throat...
...notes Actor Peter Ustinov. The "we" are the speaker and Zero Mostel, stars of an ABC-TV special. The May 18 program of four original plays, all directed by Ustinov, includes a Neil Simon sketch titled A Quiet War. In it, Mostel and friend play a couple of old Russian "Sunshine Boys" who get together every Tuesday for an argument. "We pick a different subject every week. This time it's food," says the actor-director. "We're deciding what the perfect lunch is." Sounds like a toothsome assignment for such noted trenchermen. But Gourmet Ustinov insists that...
Rand, who left her Russian birthplace while in her teens, said she believes the American people are in the midst of a, "blind, groping, ideologically helpless rebellion" against collectivism and its perpetrator, the "lousy modern intellectual...