Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn, the Russian news agency Tass lashed out at the U.S. after CIA Director Stansfield Turner remarked that though events in Iran stemmed from "genuine dissent," he was "sure there is some Soviet influence" at work in the country. Retorted Tass: "A downright lie. It is the U.S. that has inundated Iran with military experts, advisers and consultants, whose subversive activities were until recently guided by [Richard] Helms, one of Turner's predecessors in the post of CIA director...
...long Uganda can sustain this invasion is another matter. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere launched a massive counterattack, vowing that his 27,000-man, Chinese-and Russian-supplied military force would strike the invaders "until we have finally gotten rid of this snake from our house." Thousands of cheering Tanzanians gathered in Dar es Salaam to urge on Nyerere's army, which commandeered buses, Land Rovers and trucks to drive to the front, 850 miles away. But Nyerere reportedly was compelled to ground his air force after Tanzanian soldiers shot down five of their own MiG fighters, mistaking them...
That specific tone is admirably captured in a luminous and hilarious revival of the seldom done Marriage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. For the occasion the Guthrie imported Russian Director Anatoli Efros to stage the play, and his work is a marvel. Communicating through interpreters, he seems to have established an intuitive rapport with the cast. The actors get under the skin of an alien culture and, with seamless ensemble work, translate Russian characters and responses in supple body English...
...yeasty comic genius of the play rests with a totally reluctant fourth suitor, a court councilor named Podkoliosin (Peter Michael Goetz). Russian inertia runs like psychic sludge through Podkoliosin's veins. He is a precursor of Goncharov's famed character Oblomov, who could barely make the effort to get out of bed. When it comes to marriage, Podkoliosin can scarcely contemplate getting into bed. But he is sponsored and goaded by his friend Kochkariev (Alvin Epstein), a born busybody. Epstein, in his first season as artistic director of the Guthrie, animatedly embodies the temperament...
Rothko was not only a Jew, but a Russian. Though his parents took him from czarist Russia to America in 1913 when he was only ten, his origins were of immense significance to his art. He treated painting with the moral seriousness that Russians traditionally assigned to music or the novel. By art, he hoped, one is set free. The only art that could provide a model for life was the sublime. In that sense, Rothko was the last romantic painter, the heir to Turner or Caspar David Friedrich...