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...annoying nonsense about occult forces and psychic phenomena. Jack Hammond is a U.S. spy who gets caught between two beautiful Soviet witches. Evil, gorgeous Darya can dematerialize herself and drive men mad with multiple orgasms. She can also fox computer memories and detonate nuclear warheads. Good, gorgeous Valentina uses the power of Jesus for psychic healing. Hammond's problem is to keep sickly General Secretary Yuri Andropov alive until Mikhail Gorbachev is able to take over. This reader's problem is that he doesn't believe a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wide-Bodies On the Runway | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...senior back Jill Lewis launched a barrage of crisp passes from the midfield circle deep into Harvard territory. Lewis pounced upon Harvard clearing passes, redirecting the ball down the sidelines to wings Valentina Auramovic, Diane McLoughlin and halfback Mary Beth Sydlowski...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Women Booters Fit To Be Tied | 9/19/1990 | See Source »

...French Herb Garden by Geraldene Holt (Simon & Schuster; $24.95) is as helpful with its gardening instructions as with its recipes. If my lavender ever blooms, I'm going to try the ice cream with fresh lavender flowers and muscat. The companion book, Recipes from an Italian Farmhouse by Valentina Harris (Simon & Schuster; $24.95), is equally beautiful but can be a bit too authentic. I thought the sausage-meat-risotto recipe sounded good right down to the one- half cup of fresh pig's blood, at room temperature (optional, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond The Perfect Pot Roast | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...Young recruits complain of rampant hazing, even homosexual rape. Ethnic violence has racked many units; some military men claim that more Soviet soldiers have died in perestroika-era ethnic clashes than in Afghanistan. "How can an army that can't defend its own soldiers defend an entire country?" asks Valentina Zhukova, 42, whose son Edward was killed under mysterious circumstances while he was on active duty in Siberia. "They have no prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Heading for a Showdown | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

...Washington and the Soviet Ministry for Agriculture, the Dulls set up a unique Soviet-American farm-exchange program. They would spend six months on the Ukraina kolkhoz (collective farm), while a Soviet farmer, Viktor Polormarchuk, worked on their spread back in Brookville. (From his letters home, Polormarchuk's wife Valentina reports that her husband is working hard, has lost several pounds and talks about doing some private farming of his own when he returns to the Soviet Union.) "Mikhail Gorbachev's new proposals ((for liberalizing the economy)) fit in exactly with what we think about independent farming," says Ralph Dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ukraine Planting Some New Ideas | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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