Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country and gave him the confidence to turn away from Nasser's sweeping pan-Arabism and to abandon his predecessor's repressive socialist state. Sadat later felt bold enough to tell colleagues that he felt Nasser had been a disaster for Egypt: the wars, the large Russian presence, the seizure of property, the elimination of the private sector, the concentration camps. In a public ceremony, with Sadat in attendance, the Interior Ministry's large collection of taped conversations was burned. The government began returning private property and Egypt adopted a permanent constitution guaranteeing the rule...
...this, there is something brave, if conceivably self-destructive about Telefon, which might have been subtitled 'The Last Spy Picture Show." Its creators do not attempt to palm off their Manchurian Candidate plot as something ripped from today's flaming headlines. The gimmick- a group of Russian deep-cover agents in the U.S. are mind-conditioned to sabotage military targets when they get a phone call repeating a triggering phrase- is seen from the start as a forgotten pre-détente plot that an unreconstructed cold warrior (Donald Pleasence) manages to set in mo tion a decade...
...Sherr-lee Mah-klen, Sherr-lee Mah-klen," gasped the Russian visitor, recognizing the smiling redhead in the lobby of the Havana Riviera hotel. It was indeed Shirley MacLaine, autographing napkins for guests and talking up her new film, The Turning Point. Would she have a chance to meet Fidel Castro? "Oh, I'll see him at the Cuban premiere of my picture -the Premier at the premiere, I guess-tomorrow night. That's at the Carlos Marx theater." As it happened, Fidel did not catch the flick but caught the star, inviting her to the Palace...
...handicapped. We all need to move in." The sanctuary, into which people on the street can freely gaze, has movable pews, a movable altar and a 2,175-pipe German organ that stands like a sculpture on one wall. Pastor Peterson persuaded premiere Sculptress Louise Nevelson, a Russian Jew, to design the interior of a small chapel, for which she made five white-on-white wood sculptures and a white-and-gold Nevelsonian crucifix...
DIED. Andre Eglevsky, 59, Russian emigre ballet dancer who started out with the Colonel de Basil Ballet Russe at age 14, was much in demand in the U.S. in the '40s and '50s as a leading dancer and, after that, as a coach who worked with such performers as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Fernando Bujones; of a heart attack; in Elmira, N.Y., where his touring company was performing The Nutcracker...