Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Braynin wondered if the low turnout was owing to Russians' watching the Germany-Russia soccer match, and the four argued about whether Russia's defeat would cause voters to hit the vodka bottle rather than vote during the two hours remaining before the polls closed in the country's western region. "We peaked too soon," Dresner screamed. Only Shumate seemed cool. He had long before concluded that Zyuganov would never get more than 32% of the vote in the first round--the combined total the Communists and their ideological soul mates had reached in the December 1995 Duma election. "This...
Over the past few months, the Russian and Western press have identified six different people as Yeltsin's campaign manager. In fact, the person really in charge was Yeltsin's daughter Tatiana Dyachenko, 36, a computer engineer with no previous political experience. While those in the campaign's upper reaches have always known that Dyachenko was the key cog in the apparatus--if only because she alone saw the man she routinely calls "Papa" on a daily basis--her role has been widely misunderstood. After dodging the media for months, Dyachenko last week described her job to the Russian press...
...years in two American advertising agencies but freely acknowledges that his methods are still influenced by his earlier tenure as a propaganda specialist for the Soviet Communist Party and as an undercover KGB agent masquerading as a journalist for TASS, the Russian news agency. "The Americans helped teach us Western political-advertising techniques," says Margolev, "and most important, they caused our work to be accepted because they were the only ones really close to Tatiana. She was the key. The others in the campaign were like snakes, and snakes, you know, often eat each other. Putting his daughter...
Just as the alien invasion blockbuster Independence Day landed in movie theaters (with a staggering $11-million opening night), electricity mysteriously shut off in large parts of eight Western states--snarling traffic, knocking out phone and subway service, turning off air conditioners and bringing heat-drenched chaos to as many as 2 million people from Canada to Mexico. A simple coincidence? More than a few extraterrestrial aficionados thought they saw a more sinister connection. How else to explain that across a third of the U.S., movie theaters suddenly went dark...
...looking for metaphors when he programmed an entire Saturday evening of fall shows with spooky themes. He was listening to the voice of his 11-year-old son, to whom the fantastic is as real as it is to Gibson. "I can't get him to watch a classic western on television," Littlefield says and repeats this recent conversation. Son: "So let me get this straight. The horse doesn't fly?" Father: "No, it just rides across the desert." Son: "I'm outta here...