Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might as well start her career all over again; certainly no one should hold this first role against her. Actually, Zhivago's only well-thought-out role falls to Rod Steiger, who makes the most of it and--by way of reward--gets to take Julie Christie off into Siberia...
...incite "wars of national liberation." Yet in Red China itself, noted Columnist Joseph Alsop, the regime's paranoid leaders have become so distrustful of the younger generation that they have shipped all members of the three upper classes at pace-setting Peking University to Sinkiang, the Chinese Siberia, "to improve their minds by a period of hard labor...
...good to say that this is Stalinism, just Stalinism, all over again," he added. "Fifteen years ago, they would have been brought before a board of the secret police and been sent to Siberia or shot. The trial they had was public and what was said there is common knowledge by now among the intelligentsia...
...feuds were epic. The late Harry Cohn, then president of Columbia Pictures, became so furious because he was consistently poorly seated that he bought the building housing Le Pavilion. Soule kept right on seating Cohn in Siberia. Cohn raised the rent. Soule simply moved his restaurant, at a cost of some $400,000, out of the building. His impossibly high standards in the kitchen led to endless resignations, all to the ultimate benefit of gastronomes, for those who left today preside over many of Manhattan's best restaurants. He had become what all restaurateurs aspire to be-the perfect...
...mouth." Mandelstam's reference to raspberries was in a very special, nonliteral, slang sense. As for Stalin's actual craving for the fruit, who knows? I certainly am unaware of much evidence. Moreover, it is not true that Mandelstam was exiled in 1934 to Siberia. In 1934 he was first exiled to eastern European Russia, and then to Voronezh in Central Russia, where he remained until the spring of 1937, and where he wrote some of his most remarkable poetry. It was only after his second arrest that he was sent to Siberia, where he died in Vladivostok...