Word: segments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whom Chernin came to Araht. Perhaps she wanted to love Dov Aviad, the beautiful soldier who had penetrated her dreams even before he arrived. But it was not because she lost him that she fled from the kibbutz. As revealed through a surprising collection of letters in the third segment of the book she falls in love with another unforeseen person at the kibbutz. This other dangerous relationship on the border destroyed the old Chernin...
...final segment of the book, Chernin is writing in the present day "I about reconcilement with the past. She makes contact with people from the kibbutz, Devora and Dov Aviad. She reveals the entire story to her daughter, the title girl who had written so many years ago that she was starting to forge t the face of her mother. And she welcomes back the old "Kim Chernin," banished these long twenty years since Israel...
...lights go red and "Thunder," choreographedby Charles Moulton, begins with the entrance ofdancers outrageously painted and costumed with amedieval flair. An interesting but terribly oddpiece, it features Elizabeth Parkinson leading agroup of pelvic-thrusting dancers scrambling andflinging each other around the stage. Althoughthis segment is more mine than dance, "Thunder" isat its best during the highly choreographedinstances when the uninhibited dancers execute afast-paced and dramatic range of movements. One ofthe best pieces follows Prince's well-known"Purple Rain." Valerie Madina performs a solo in aclown costume with her face painted afrighteningly glowing white. Every facialexpression of hers deepens...
That is certainly true of the overseas espionage organization, the Foreign Intelligence Service, known by the Russian initials SVR and headed by Yevgeni Primakov, which reports directly to President Boris Yeltsin. It was the first segment of the old KGB to open for business on its own in October 1991. The SVR took over most of the spies and analysts from the parent organization...
...purebred surface-ship captain -- whose sailors make up the bulk of its force -- since Elmo Zumwalt left the job a generation ago. "When you go a long period of time without having a surface-fleet CNO, then it becomes a very serious morale problem for that vast segment of the Navy," Zumwalt says...