Word: usual
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Communist jargon and classical music are the usual radio diet of the Soviet citizen. But during five years of U.S.-Soviet detente, listeners in the Soviet Union had a simple alternative. A flick of the dial pulled in Western news, commentary-and even the throbbing beat of hard rock music. Moscow's decision in June 1963 to abandon jamming Western programs was an indication of the U.S.S.R.'s interest in a rapprochement with the Western world. Now the jamming is on again...
...productivity has lagged far behind wage increases, and prices are in a wild upward spiral (120% for furniture, 60% for clothing). Russia, which aims to fasten the nation's industry more securely than ever to its own economic needs, last week proffered a sizable hard-currency loan. As usual, Soviet help would come with plenty of strings...
Poor Vladimir. As usual, the press is in the forefront of defiance. The Reporter, banned for a month, welcomed itself back into print with a cover story on the student sit-in, two cartoons satirizing censorship, and an editorial promising to "demand justice" in the event of "any further interference with freedom of expression." Even under the system of self-censorship imposed on publications by the Soviets, it is surprising that so much irreverence got through. But the Reporter employed a rather special system for choosing its own censor, whose name happens to be Vladimir. As a fellow staffer explained...
...sequences, though plainly process shots miniatures, are kind of a groove and will evoke comfortable chuckling. After 2001, routine special effects simply don't pass by without a wince or two. The film's tight acting accounts for several of the small virtues, with Ernest Borgnine more disciplined than usual as a "mysterious Russian," and McGoohan (TV's Prisoner) having a high time with a performance which, though indistinguishable from any recent Burton or O'Toole job, shows he can handle second-rate dialogue with the best or them. Though McGoohan steals the picture, at least...
RECOMMENDATIONS for disciplining the demonstrators will come as usual from the Administrative Board, whose procedural defects are enough in themselves to make severe punishment inadvisable. It's no secret that the case-by-case routine of the board is better suited to benevolent chiding of academic sluggards and habitual Coop thieves than to harshly punishing large groups of political demonstrators. Last Spring the Ad Board considered revising its procedures--especially for obstructive demonstrations--but ended up doing nothing...