Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aksyonov knew from clouds. His father, a Communist Party official, and his mother, a distinguished historian, spent nearly two decades in labor camps and Siberian exile during the Stalin years. He was raised in provincial Kazan by an aunt, completed medical school in Leningrad and became a popular though officially censured novelist. The Burn, his fictional account of Stalin-era Siberia, was published abroad in 1980. For that offense he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship while traveling in the U.S. and found himself stranded there...
...desert, when the movie turns Ishtary. But Glen, Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson (Broccoli's stepson, who serves as co- screenwriter and co-producer) have wrapped a few nifty surprises in the security blanket of genre familiarity. The gasbag KGB agent is smuggled out of Czechoslovakia through the Trans-Siberian natural gas pipeline. A professional killer and a British guard stage the best kitchen fight since the gremlins got microwaved. The requisite ski chase sends Dalton and D'Abo bobsledding down the slopes in her cello case. Throughout, the film forfeits sniggering humor to accentuate action and character. As Bond...
...strike, the fun-loving slugger turned to the beloved umpire and quipped, "But, comrade, Marx said that when workers controlled the means of production, there would be no more strikes!" The joke was considered so funny that Jabov was not jailed at all but merely sent down to the Siberian League for attitudinal readjustment...
...well-traveled poet visits Santo Domingo, where the series is being shot. Elsewhere, he alludes to his own movie, The Kindergarten, about his childhood in the Siberian town of Zima Junction. Fuku and the film share events and images of Yevgeny...
Once the leafy pastime of a derided fringe group, birding has developed into a go- go sport with wide appeal to active and sedentary aficionados alike. From feeding chickadees in the backyard to hunting Siberian rubythroats in the Aleutian Islands, birding offers aesthetic delight, the joys of puzzle solving and the chance to sublimate avarice through the compilation of a life list...