Word: siberian
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...final performance during the St. Petersburg engagement turns into a fiasco: a clown goes mad, an enraged tigress must be shot. Offstage, Fevvers nearly surrenders her putative virtue to a Russian grand duke. The trip on the Great Siberian Railway brings worse tidings: sabotage, derailment, kidnaping outlaws. Walser loses himself and his memory in the vast tundra, while Fevvers realizes that the vanished reporter has stolen a piece of her heart...
...such inspired extravagance, there was always a Faberge egg in the imperial Easter basket. A gorgeous rooster pops out of the Chanticleer egg to announce every hour; the Peacock egg hides an enameled gold bird that struts on cue and fans its multihued tail; inside the Trans-Siberian Railway egg is a golden Trans-Siberian Railway train. Everyone should have one. But for those who cannot, this lavishly illustrated, well-documented history, Masterpieces from the House of Faberge (Abrams; 192 pages; $35), is a handsome substitute...
...most serious allegation concerned the Soviet construction of a large radar facility in Siberia. Under the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the two nations agreed that radar capable of spotting incoming enemy warheads could be situated only on the periphery of each country and "oriented outward." The Siberian radar is located 500 miles inland and pointed over the Siberian land mass. The Soviet claim that the installation is a satellite-tracking station does not satisfy U.S. arms experts. For their part, however, the Soviets could question the legality of U.S. radar facilities in Georgia and Texas...
...supply vessel with five Alaskans on board, accidentally strayed inside Soviet territorial waters and was seized by a Soviet border-patrol boat. The Americans, who were on a routine trip to carry supplies to a seismographic research vessel in the Bering Strait, were taken to the bleak Siberian outpost of Ureliki on Provideniya Bay and confined. Only after the U.S. launched formal protests in Washington and Moscow last week did the Soviets become cooperative in releasing the Americans and their ship. Captain Tabb Thorns and his crew of four were finally put aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sherman during...
Those who define themselves by a specific adversary have always acknowledged the bond. A faded photograph from 1962: at a Soviet-American track-and-field championship in Palo Alto, Calif., Siberian High Jumper Valeriy Brumel sprang past Bostonian John Thomas for his world record of 7 ft. 5 in. The American crowd cheered without reservation. Thomas hugged and pounded Brumel. On impulse, Valeriy and Tennessee Long Jumper Ralph Boston took a lap around the stadium to unreserved applause. Only the audience has changed...