Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leaf traveled all over the world, from Israel to Nicaragua to the Soviet Union to Denmark to screen her works, give workshops and serve as a jury member for international animation festivals...
Back in the chilly days of the Cold War, news of a Soviet leader promising to slash one third of his nuclear arsenal would have made banner headlines worldwide. But when Boris Yeltsin made that pledge in Sweden on Tuesday, it barely rated a mention. Which could have something to do with the fact that his spokesman, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, told reporters that his boss had been "tired" when he spoke ? and no, this was not a promise, merely a suggestion...
...commercial filmed in a Moscow outlet this week, the former Soviet leader smiles with as much dignity as he can muster while customers conclude that his crowning achievement is their access to America?s favorite pie. ?They had to work hard to persuade Gorbachev to do the ad,? says TIME's Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier, ?because he knows how humiliating it is. But his foundation desperately needs the money...
After the war the Gutmanns' surviving children, Lili and Bernard, began to hunt for the paintings they had grown up with. Bernard, who became virtually obsessed with the search, eventually concluded that most of the artwork, including the Degas, had been carried off by Soviet troops at the war's end. When Bernard died in 1994, his sister Lili and his sons Simon and Nick took up the quest. By chance, they stumbled onto one of the family's Renoirs, an orchard scene entitled Le Poirier, in an old auction catalog of Parke-Bernet, the corporate predecessor of Sotheby...
President Jiang's insensitivity to civil rights results from fear of social chaos. He may be haunted by the Russian experience: when Mikhail Gorbachev started tinkering with the Soviet system in 1985, his communist empire came crashing down. It is impossible for a dictatorial system to survive when people openly question the government's policies. To evaluate an adversary's stand correctly, we have to understand his fears. ANGELO A. DE GENNARO San Antonio, Texas...