Word: sovietized
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...troubled artist's state of mind. Now living in Glasgow, where his works are shown as a theatrical installation called "Sharmanka" (Russian for hurdy-gurdy), Bersudsky began sculpting in Leningrad in the late 1960s. There, out of sight of the authorities, he poured his sarcasm and frustration at the Soviet Union's dead hand on artistic and cultural freedom into giant, busy works built of scrap iron and wooden carvings such as the precarious Pisa Tower - a collection of Jewish figures struggling frantically to keep their balance - or Noah's Ark, a warped bestiary sailing forever in search...
...must help ze Fuehrer protect ze Homeland!” Noonan seems to have struck the source of the visceral unease that the term provokes. “Homeland Security” resembles a call for devotion to safeguarding some German “fatherland” or Soviet “motherland.”The term seems to achieve such an effect from a combination of two characteristics: first, by indicating that the well-being of the domineering “land” takes precedence over that of its people, and second, by the choice of Germanic...
...Colonel Luis Alberto Rodriguez, is being groomed to take over the broad economic and business policy duties already held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces, including enterprises like the multibillion-dollar tourist concern Gaviota, which has helped keep Cuba afloat since the demise of its longtime benefactor, the Soviet Union...
...Alliance, which tried to depict the two major parties as too extreme. The Alliance platform, for example, called for keeping the nation's aging Polaris missiles and delaying a decision on deployment of U.S. cruise missiles in Britain as long as there was hope of serious negotiations with the Soviet Union...
...only the most vivid showcase for a combativeness Thatcher exhibited, sometimes with mixed results, throughout her first term. "She thrives on confrontation," said a Cabinet colleague. She wrestled with the European Community over British contributions to the B.C. treasury and succeeded in winning sizable rebates. She lambasted the Soviet Union with cold war invective. She coldly withstood the threats of Irish Republican Army hunger strikers, even when ten of them died of starvation in 1981 at Belfast's Maze prison. She pursued an austere, rigidly monetarist economic line, and when members of her Cabinet protested about the pain...