Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students are a diverse group with varying ambitions: several are married, with children; some, from such regions as Estonia and Latvia, do not speak Russian fluently. As they battled homesickness during their orientation period, many found solace in front of a campus VCR. During a showing of Platoon, the tiny TV room looked like a Tokyo train at rush hour. Erlan Sagadiyev, 21, who served in the army for two years, explained that the Afghanistan war had greatly fanned Soviet interest in the Viet...
...updated look at 1860s Russian anarchists and a chilling contemporary fable renew Los Angeles' tradition of political drama...
...changes left only two pre-Gorbachev appointees on the Politburo: Vitaly I. Vorotnikov, chief of the Russian Republic; and Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky, head of the Ukraine. The ruling body dropped from 13 to 12 members...
...main island of Hawaii offers luxury accommodations for $195 to $375 a night. For $325 extra, guests can train for a day under a professional driver, then suit up for a mock Grand Prix auto race along the coastline. Those who seek Hemingway-style adventures can hunt wild Russian boar and Longhorn bull on an island safari...
...research organization based in Manhattan, reports in a new study that the number of unmarried women making use of condoms almost doubled between 1982 and 1987 to 2.2 million, or about 16% of the sexually active, fertile female population. Says Helen Fairman, 20, a Harvard sophomore: "It's playing Russian roulette not to use them...