Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...felt that I wanted to dedicate this race to my father who died three months ago," Whitten says. "He saw my first race in high school when I got creamed...
...Communist Party Committee, assured us that "all the processes of change going on in Moscow make their way to us in Tambov, if somewhat later on." We needed to be convinced. I made clear that both of us knew enough to recognize a pokazukha, or staged event, when we saw...
...drove to Uvarovo, the village of my youth that had since turned into a decent-sized city of some 50,000. I discovered that the second secretary of the city party committee was Vladimir Selyugin, an old childhood friend. When I last saw Volodya, he had been working as an agrotechnical engineer. Why had he suddenly turned up on the committee? He told me that he was tired of Uvarovo being run by transients. He had grown up here, worked here and had no intention of going anywhere else...
...most serious paintings alternated between a touching optimism and a profound morbidity. During our afternoon together, we discussed the plight of Soviet artists, and I left with two paintings hidden under my jacket (in case KGB watchers were about). On my return to Moscow this year, I saw a fully sanctioned exhibition of "unofficial" art not unlike Sitnikov's and felt deep sadness that he had not lived long enough...
...even more dramatic fall from grace. His strongest negative rating, 80%, comes from Communist Party members who bitterly blame him for abusing his post and causing the party's prestige to decline. On the other hand, Nikita Khrushchev, a reformer of sorts who was thrown out of office and saw his reputation tarnished before he died, is enjoying a modest boost in popularity. More than 29% view him favorably, compared with only 5% for Brezhnev...