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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to shore up their own declining popularity. According to Genrikh Grout, spokesman for Renewal, a society devoted to returning Germans to the Volga, authorities in the Saratov area along the Volga River have publicly denounced would-be German returnees as "fascists." Says Grout: "There is no soap, milk, sausage or order here, and this ((name-calling)) is a channel to siphon off resentment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Longing to Go Home | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

Will the cozy images of life with the Huxtables and the wacky exploits of a furry extraterrestrial foment democratic urges in Cuba and help topple Castro? Stay tuned: the U.S. may soon begin broadcasting sitcoms (including The Cosby Show and Alf), Mexican soap operas and, yes, news to the land of Ricky Ricardo's birth. The station, called TV Marti, represents Washington's hope that capitalist programming will achieve what the Bay of Pigs invasion could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Alf in Havana | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...this uncertain transitional time in rock. The Millis go down easy, and easy, for the moment, looks like enough. This is not to suggest, however, that the Millis are unaware of their social impact. "Like a friend of mine went to Africa," Pilatus reports. "And there was no soap and no Coke. But there was Milli Vanilli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Two Scoops of Vanilli | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

Food privileges elicit the deepest anger. Although there are plenty of potatoes and kasha, a kind of porridge, ordinary Soviets must wait in long lines, sometimes for hours, to purchase such "luxuries" as soap, coffee and sausage. Meat that is not nine-tenths gristle is seldom available. Yet special shops for higher-ups are well stocked. On New Year's Eve people who rushed to the scene of a car crash in the Ukrainian town of Chernigov were incensed to discover a lavish cache of meats and vodka in the trunk of the damaged official vehicle. They seized the delicacies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Membership Has Its Privileges | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...lines, most of them leeringly lame. ("Desmond, have you ever been intimate when the two of you knew you weren't in love?" "I've been intimate when the three of us knew we weren't in love.") The show strives to be a wacky send-up of soap operas, but it lacks the deadpan wit of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman or the bomb-throwing audacity of Soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Banging Away at the Piano Works | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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