Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...iron laws is that sooner or later, what goes around comes around. And this show provides a moving record of Europe's reaffirmation of itself against terrible odds. The totalitarian regimes of the '30s-Nazism in Germany and Central Europe, Fascism in Italy, Stalinism in the Soviet Union-had wiped entire countries off the map of modernist culture. Though modernism had long flirted with the idea of historical amnesia, treating the past as though it were a drag on invention, it was not equipped to deal with the actual destruction of that past by war and ideology. Whole tracts...
...more and more, he was consumed with this stuff. He continued to talk about [a nuclear] Armageddon. In fact, he got target-locked on it. He was becoming obsessed with post-[nuclear]-holocaust government intrusion. And then you take the quantum leap from [nuclear war] and Soviet invasion to [present-day] government involvement, left-wing infiltration into the government...
...brought show-biz hype into the mtv age; the megastar who, along with his wife Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson, will grant an audience to Diane Sawyer on this week's PrimeTime Live; the guy whose shameless promotional short for his new CD features him leading goose-stepping Soviet-bloc-style soldiers in a Leni Riefenstahl-like tribute to his own power and glory...
With her advanced degree, law-enforcement experience and highly rated "persuasive skills," Diane finished near the top of her CIA training class. Posted to a Soviet-bloc country, she was so good at evading surveillance that headquarters gave her the sensitive job of meeting moles. She once hiked for miles across frozen fields to collect documents from a frightened communist official. "You look into the eyes of a man on a cold, snowy night, and you realize this guy has risked his life to come and give you this information," she says. The man's face had flooded with relief...
...devastating earthquake struck Sakhalin Island in Russia's far east, killing perhaps as many as 2,000 of 3,000 people living in the tiny oil-drilling town of Neftegorsk. The violent quake, 7.5 on the Richter scale, flattened the shoddy Soviet-built apartment blocks; in a section of town, one of the few structures still standing was a statue of Lenin. Subfreezing nighttime temperatures complicated rescue efforts, and thick offshore ice kept a hospital ship from reaching Sakhalin...