Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exporting nations, who are contemplating another price increase this fall. Such an act would be "totally unacceptable," said Gerald Ford, but he did not say what the U.S. could do about it. Much of his week was spent entertaining a cross section of Americans and two old Russian flyers, who brought him a model of the plane they had used in their 1937 polar flight. He also received a few field pointers during a visit by soccer's Brazilian superstar Pete...
...opened the proceedings by calling for a redistribution of world wealth and political power to bring about a "new international order." The International Women's Year could not make good on its promise of peace, declared Mrs. Sadat, "while Arab lands remain occupied, while the Palestinians remain homeless." Russian Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, head of the Soviet delegation, extolled her country to reporters as "the great exception as far as opportunity for women is concerned...
...Liners. Neither mistresses nor the fact that he kept a light on in his room until he was 30 is enough to keep the coward from combat. It is on the battlefield, with some astonishingly evocative camera work, that the director-writer-star sends up Russian literature and never lets it come down. It is as if one of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Hasidic schoolboys were managing Tolstoy's estate and Dostoevsky's psychoses. The Brothers Karamazov meet the Brothers Marx; the epic of War and Peace is reduced to a battle of church and shtetl; Boris...
...Sonja (Diane Keaton), an arouseful little blouseful who confesses that she has been faithful to the male population west of Minsk. The lovers are poor but wretched, living only on snow and an occasional treat of sleet. To relieve the chill, they engage in those favorite occupations of Russian novelists, the epistemological debate and the religious monologue. "Socrates is a man; all men are mortal; therefore all men are Socrates," concludes Boris. It is this kind of syllogism that moves him to assassinate Napoleon, an adventure that ends, of course, with the wrong man slain. No matter. A celestial sign...
Father Ronald Knox once observed, "The humorist runs with the hare; the satirist hunts with the hounds." Baying through this Russian blizzard of hilarity, Woody Allen, former rabbit, is at least trying to create a beagle. The fact that most of the time it comes out bagel should not discourage him. In any Allen film there can be only one winner: the viewer. · Stefan Kanfer...