Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Granted, the two plays cover extremely different subject matters--Angels deals with the pain of the AIDS epidemic combined with the fear of the millennium’s end; while Slavs! pokes fun and raises questions about the state of the former Soviet Union during the late '80s and early '90s. In addition, the latter play doesn't contain the painful and poignant emotional turbulence that the former is famous for. To try to compare them any further would be useless. But rest assured that, if you were genuinely moved by the powerful presence of Angels last fall, you will...
...play's finale that is both the most obscure and the most disturbing scene in the entire production. Aleksii and Serge play cards in heaven and try not to look down on the former Soviet Union to see what's going on. Once they are joined by Vodya, who has ironically enough gained her voice (which makes her even more frightening than when she was silent), they all contemplate the purpose of one's existence and the use of fighting for beliefs in a world that, ultimately, leaves almost all of its inhabitants asking, "What is to be done?" Leaving...
Former Monty Python member MICHAEL PALIN, host of A&E's travel series: "While filming in Novgorod once, I submitted myself to 18 straight vodkas. My system fought back. I raced to the washbasin, a monument to Soviet plumbing. It wasn't attached to the wall. Nausea hit as I staggered round, trying to keep 55 lbs. of basin from breaking both my legs...
...technological superiority was questioned; we were being beaten by a country that bragged, "America will sleep under a Russian moon." But Al brought us back. He brought us back by carrying the American questing spirit on his shoulders into the heavens. He brought us back because he took the Soviet challenge not only as a patriot--he took it personally...
...Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism, someone decided to create a time capsule to be opened at the millennium. A number of world figures were asked how things would be different in the year 2000. Israeli Prime Minister DAVID BEN-GURION predicted that the Soviet Union would be transformed into a "free and democratic" country and that there would be peace between Arabs and Israelis. Lyndon Johnson, then a Senator, saw the end of racial segregation in America. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT foresaw a Jewish President. Today, because the union is moving offices, it wants...