Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mildly contemptuous of Gorbachev ("He has no clear thoughts and no perseverance") and calls Lenin a "merciless Bolshevik." At the movement's noisy rallies, hecklers are often attacked by Pamyat toughs who are the Soviet version of skinheads. Soviet Jews are concerned that Pamyat's modest membership of several thousand is an inadequate index of its power. Says Boris Kelman, a Leningrad refusenik: "Pamyat is not only protected but controlled by people at a high level in the party. It gets support from...
...nation that has always adored social satire, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, 55, is the undisputed comic laureate of glasnost. Once forced to circulate tapes of his routines underground, today Zhvanetsky plays thousand-seat arenas, appears on national television and counts Politburo member Alexander Yakovlev among his fans. To give readers a flavor of his comedic style, TIME asked Zhvanetsky to write a monologue about his trip to the U.S. last year...
...There were a lot of different ideas [that spring], but we were of the generation of 'let a thousand flowers bloom,'" says Temma Kaplan, a Harvard graduate student who was arrested in University Hall. "But things got rougher after the Harvard strike. We stopped dancing. Things got more ideological...
...Columbia, nearly 1000 students occupied five administration buildings while several thousand massed outside, virtually shutting down the university. That affair, and the student protests in Mexico and France the year before, may have provided the immediate impetus for Harvard's strike...
...just dying to play [Chiang]," Berry said. "We've been playing each other since we were 10 years old. I'm going to be all over the net, and he's going to have to hit like a thousand passing shots [to beat...