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Both the men and women in "Company" are ambivalent about love and commitment. Amy (Samara Levenstein, ideally cast) frets and over-analyzes her way to the altar to marry quiet, sensitive Paul (deftly played by Paul Siemens). On the other hand, Harry and Sarah (Doug Rand and Kate deLima) extol the virtues of life-long committment while barely disguising their hostility toward one another. DeLima perfectly captures her character's sexual frustration, which she vents in a hilarious scene about food-related auto-eroticism...
Burning buildings illuminated the way in the gathering darkness as our column of three armored personnel carriers rolled down the empty central boulevard of Grozny. Our mission: to break through to the Samara motorized rifle regiment pinned down in front of the presidential palace during the Russian assault on the Chechen capital. We never made it. The way ahead was blocked by the wreckage of gutted Russian tanks. An ambush? I closed my eyes as I had often done as a child at the dentist's office, hoping that if my time was up, death would come quickly. We managed...
Born on Oct. 30,1908, in Samara (now Kuibyshev), a city 550 miles southeast of Moscow on the Volga River, Ustinov was the child of working-class parents. He began his career working as a fitter in a paper mill and as a diesel mechanic and went on to study design engineering in Leningrad...
...apostrophe. It's as if Axinn grew bored with the berries and nuts and scrambled for a new theme to revitalize the poem before it flopped. He twists his words and superimposes one theme over another to prevent the poems from becoming dull. Axinn introduces the poem "Appointment in Samara" with an explanatory story...
Death, runs away to Samara...