Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...danger is in believing Klimov and his colleagues can produce an ideal creative climate. But Soviet filmmakers know not to expect too much. In Vyacheslav Krishtofovich's poignant comedy Lonely Woman Searching for a Life Companion, a seamstress places a personal ad on walls around her town. The results are dire. The first man to answer the ad insults her, tries to rob her and then leeches on her kind nature. A trio of Young Pioneers, encouraged to take pity on the "sick and the lonely," offers to take her for walks in the countryside. She nearly loses...
...conveyed a fear of foreigners that had been drummed into her over the years, as if every Westerner were a cia agent. But she was also concerned about how an American would view the region where she and my father had come from. My grandparents were buried in the town of Uvarovo, 60 miles southeast of Tambov. I had spent my early childhood years there, and returned to Uvarovo every summer as a schoolboy...
...trolleybus lines had gone on strike, protesting the dreadful condition of the roads Tambovskaya Pravda, the local Communist Party daily, devoted the front page to a regional party committee meeting, examining the fate of those repressed under Stalin Elections had been held for a new factory director In the town of Michurinsk, 40 miles to the northwest, an ecology rally had been organized, drawing more than 1,000 people...
...prompting. Workers actually tended to their machines, instead of congregating in the aisles or staring off into space. Output had tripled, pilfering had plummeted, and alcohol abuse had declined so much that the janitor no longer found enough empty bottles to make a twice-daily trash run into town. The 130 cooperative members earned, on average, 625 rubles ($1,000) a month, about 2 1/2 times the norm for factory workers. Production had begun to meet demand...
...toughtest cop," was determined to prevent them in Philadelphia. He once told Stokely Carmichael to "choose [his] words carefully" when the revolutionary civil rights leader came to the city to give a speech. He threatened, "I'm tellin' you, Mr. Carmichael, if you cause a riot in this town, I'm going to personally tear you apart. It'll take four orthopedic surgeons a week to put you together...