Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...petite woman with gray hair, Lauristin may seem an unlikely revolutionary, but she is as much a rebel in her own way as was her father Johannes, a prominent Estonian Bolshevik. Her Popular Front has taken the organizational model of the party and turned it upside down. The movement promotes no rigid political platform, except a general commitment to democracy and pluralism, and welcomes everyone into its ranks. Its central steering committee is an umbrella organization for dozens of local chapters that open their doors to any citizens' groups with a worthy cause. In Tartu the Popular Front joined with...
...themselves. A steady stream of visitors from all over the Soviet Union seek out Memorial's cramped Moscow office. Many are elderly women who wait for as long as an hour and a half -- as if "they were lining up to buy sausage," says a Memorial volunteer. One woman, hands trembling, offers to donate a ring that her husband fashioned for her in the prison camps out of a bolt nut. Another, barely keeping back tears, asks for advice about how to discover what happened to her father. She had thought he died of pneumonia in a labor camp...
...Gymnastics at 8 daily, and another show, Aerobics, appears several afternoons each week. Popular journals are carrying more articles about controlling that well-known artery clogger kholesterine. Perhaps not coincidentally, the slim, fashionable Raisa Gorbachev, who travels regularly with her husband, is projecting a new image for the Soviet woman...
...before switching to journalism in 1972, Shinkaretsky joined Good Evening, Moscow! three years ago. "I decided to use glasnost to the hilt," he recalls. Today he is often recognized on the street, and he is peppered with questions. At the store where he checked for nitrates, a stooped old woman approached him and asked, "Can you do something about the lack of toothpaste...
...attitude toward sex: IN THE SOVIET UNION, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SEX. As far as public discussion is concerned, the statement is not far from wrong. The U.S.S.R. has long been a society that is not just puritanical but almost completely ignorant about sexuality. The typical Soviet woman has nine abortions not because of liberal attitudes but because the procedure is a substitute for contraception, which is essentially unavailable. Says Igor Kon, a founding father of Soviet sociology and the nation's leading -- and perhaps only -- sexologist: "If you want to imagine the atmosphere in the Soviet Union...