Word: samovars
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...notice from having watched some of the rehearsals that your techniques lead to some odd conclusions; for example, replacing a samovar with a gaudy pink pillow...
Evgeny Evtushenlco, 34, is dropping salt in the samovar again with yet another batch of soul-scraping poems published in the Russian journal Znamya. The poems derive from his six-week tour of the U.S. in 1966, and one in particular-Monologue of a Blue Fox on an Alaskan Animal Farm-seems an especially bold statement of the rebel's own schizoid loyalties. The fox shrills for freedom from its cage, where it is held because of the value of its fur. Then it discovers that the door to its pen has been left open, only to make...
...converted bombers, with inadequate air conditioning and pressurizing-and that the pilots bank too sharply. Where the cities are close together, a train ride is worth it for the experience of traveling in a deluxe "soft seat" car, at the end of which there is always a samovar of hot tea warmed by live coals...
...ornate silver samovar was discovered wrapped in swaddling clothes of Gordon linen towels inside a Coop laundry...
...must make fascinating reading for Nikita Khrushchev and his colleagues, and it surely graces many a samovar table around the Kremlin. But how did the annual report of Litton Industries, California's electronics giant, get distributed in Moscow-and in Russian...