Word: urn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside the polling station at Moscow's Secondary School No. 70, the face was familiar and the voting proctors did not demand the customary identification papers. Nilcita Khrushchev, 72, looking considerably older and thinner, quietly folded his ballot and dropped it into the urn, casting his meaningless vote for his Moscow district's unopposed candidate for the Supreme Soviet, or Parliament. The candidate's name: Alexei Kosygin, the fellow who, with Leonid Brezhnev, put Khrushchev out of a job two years ago. It was a rare public appearance for Nikita Sergeevich, and a crowd of nearly...
Simply reproduce the Grecian urn he took delight...
...ROSE TATTOO is a sensuously direct drama of a Sicilian widow in Louisiana with an obsessive attachment to an urn containing her husband's ashes. Maureen Stapleton once again plays Tennessee Williams' high-strung heroine...
...ROSE TATTOO is a sensuously direct drama of a Sicilian widow in Louisiana with an obsessive attachment to an urn containing her husband's ashes. Maureen Stapleton once again plays Tennessee Williams' high-strung heroine...
Unchecked desire, suggests Dumitriu, spirals darkly downward into chaos, madness or murder, and he illuminates the descent with passages of coruscating prose. He clearly intends his book to be an acid analysis of decline in the West, but U.S. readers will more likely find it just another well-wrought urn in the fashionable temple of despair...