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...simplicity, they were a superb matrix for the changing effects of light and color. Sometimes Monet's grainstacks glow like furnaces, their shadow lines breaking into excited flurries of crimson and blue; sometimes they are dirty brown, between the inert pewter sky of winter and the white crust of snow...
...pretty psyched that there's snow on the ground now, so that we can leave it," she said...
Today: Increasing clouds with a 30 percent chance of light rain late in the day, high 45 to 50. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph. Tonight and Tomorrow: Rain or snow likely, low 30 to 35, high 35 to 40. Chance of precipitation 70 percent...
...first victims of Stalin's expulsions were the Koreans who peopled the Soviet Far East. In 1937 they were herded to the snow-blown steppes of Kazakhstan to prevent them from "collaborating" with the Japanese. Later Stalin deemed the Volga Germans "saboteurs and spies" and in 1941 banished them to Siberia. The Crimean Tatars followed in 1944. Other exiled nationalities included the Kalmucks, Chechens, Ingush and the Balkars. By the 1960s, some of these groups had been rehabilitated and given back their autonomous regions. But "lost" peoples remain, among them the Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks...
...1960s he was pictured on a top-selling poster sitting on a toilet. In the '70s he penned the foul-mouthed rock classic Don't Eat the Yellow Snow. Small wonder, then, that the iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has had a hard time getting mainstream airplay. But the times they are a-changin', and Financial News Network is betting the cult hero is ready for prime time. This week Zappa debuts as guest host on FNN: Focus, an interview show. As his opening topic, Zappa will explore opportunities for U.S. businesses in the Soviet Union. The 49-year-old renegade...