Word: vladimir
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...VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY Hideous as his image was, Playboy interview makes it worse
THROUGHOUT VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S Lolita the prose chimes with music. How appropriate, then, that Rodion Schedrin, one of Russia's pre-eminent composers, has seized upon the novel for an opera. Schedrin's Lolita, which received its world premiere at the Royal Opera in Stockholm last month, runs four hours; unfortunately, the novel has more music on a single page...
Presidential elections are set for 1996, and Russia's VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY is already campaigning. During stops on a 20-day cruise along the Volga last August, he spoke to crowds, cannily tailoring his words for each region and ethnic group. But to Canadian free-lance journalist Jennifer Gould, 27, who interviewed him on the cruise, he was rambling and revealing. Their conversations appear in Playboy magazine's March edition. Topics ranged from Russia (``We need democracy. But some violence is required.'') to Clinton (``one of the founders of the decline of America'') and Arafat (``I don't like his clothes...
Maggie catches a break when she meets Jorge (Vladimir Vega), a gentle Paraguayan refugee. But as they try to create their own family, Maggie's past haunts them. So does her bad temper. Brutalized as a child, she has a vicious streak and a suspicion of Jorge's goodness. Any man who doesn't strike her--and strike out at the system she believes oppresses her--well, he can't be a real man, can he? Heroically, Jorge endures Maggie's depressions, rages and physical abuse. All he can do is love...