Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joseph Beuys of Film and Video--Joseph Beuys: Transformer by John Hilpern and From Here Out...: Two Interviews with Joseph Beuys by Peter Herrmann. Seminar Room. Sunday, Feb. 9,3 p.m. I like America and America likes Me, Trans-Siberian Railway, and Celtic+. Museum School. Monday, Feb. 10, 6 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave. Tickets...
...solid bet to repeat as Ivy champion. In fact, the Big Green's only obstacle to an undefeated Ivy season will be Princeton, which plays Dartmouth at Hanover, N.H. in two weeks time (this week, Dartmouth should have little trouble with cellar-dweller Brown at the Siberian...
Although supplies are erratic, cigarettes and bread are practically the only major staples not rationed these days in this industrial center of 1.1 million, situated 700 miles northeast of Moscow on the Trans-Siberian railway line through the Ural Mountains. Salt, sugar, butter, eggs, macaroni and even matches must be bought with ration coupons -- assuming, of course, that state- run stores have the items. At harvest time, a shortage of sugar caused a near panic; without it, fruits and berries from family garden plots could not be made into preserves for the coming winter. In Perm, as elsewhere in provincial...
...office. The Russian populist donned a white coat to inspect a high-tech laboratory, reviewed black-uniformed columns of sailors and promised the crew of the nuclear missile cruiser Kirov that he would do everything possible to improve their living conditions. Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov toured the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, lending a sympathetic ear to the problems of defense workers at a chemical factory. Back in Moscow Kremlin adviser Vadim Bakatin talked to cossack leaders about what he called his "common sense" politics...
Though Yeltsin fits the label of populist, he possesses a depth of character and an integrity that make him much more than a Huey Long in a Siberian fur hat. Like many populists, Yeltsin has made his share of rash promises -- to provide all Muscovites with an apartment by the year 2000, say, or to achieve a measurable improvement in living standards in two years. But unlike most, Yeltsin has taken his political lumps and recovered from them. He has perceptibly matured from the brash, almost bullying Moscow party boss of 1987, who boasted that he fired...