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Adso, still the adolescent in flux and in heat, is a bit more complex, and Slater has much more to work with. A mystically erotic scene of Adso discovering the carnal truth with a young peasant girl (Valentina Vargas) might be the best reason to see this movie...
...things. Konstantin Petrov, from the Voroshilovgrad region, demanded, "Why not make a movie that will teach children about coal mining? I can remember only one good book about coal miners, and that was written 30 years ago." Delegates were not surprised to learn that Petrov was a retired miner. Valentina Plenova, 55, a spunky factory worker, took the floor to complain about the inertia at many industrial enterprises. Said she: "We still work like yesterday." Later Plenova's deeper feelings surfaced. "I'm in love with my leader," she blurted. "In love!" She then paid Gorbachev, the object...
...first woman in space, or even the first American woman. Those honors went to the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and America's Sally Ride (1983). But Judith ("J.R.") Resnik may have been the most doggedly determined astronaut, male or female, ever to suit up. "I want to do everything there is to be done," she once said, and she came close to her goal. A gourmet cook and classical pianist ("I never play anything softly") with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, she was working on a pilot's license before she died...
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who in 1963 became the first woman in space, was sick for most of her three days in or bit, and is reported to have panicked when she became ill. In 1970 her husband Andrian Nikolayev was one of two cosmonauts who set an 18-day space endurance record, in a craft that they could not stop from rotating, sometimes as often as one turn every six seconds. As a result, the cosmonauts on their return to earth had to be lifted from their couches and carried to an ambulance. The first Soviet space mission fatality occurred...
...June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, 26, began a three-day orbital voyage, becoming the first woman to break the shackles of the earth. Tereshkova returned to a hero's welcome in Moscow, including kisses from a beaming Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who held her up to the world as the symbol of the new Soviet woman...