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Yekaterina ("Auntie Katya"), a 90-year-old in a faded woolen coat and thick brown head scarf, carrying a bag of apples: "No, dear, my family didn't discuss the death when they came home; they were all very tired, so they just went to bed. Chernenko? Oh, we all have to die. They all die, and yet I live on. I'll always have bread. Why do you ask, dear? Was he a relative of yours...
Nina, 87, a woman with two rows of silver teeth, dressed in a blue coat and woolen scarf, in Moscow for the day to shop: "I don't know anything about Gorbachev; I only know that we had bread under Chernenko, and we will continue to have it under Gorbachev. There is meat in the shops too. I have a pension, and Gorbachev won't take it away from...
Although the government tolerates Peking's youthful money-changers, it cracked down on more flagrant speculators. The party newspaper People's Daily pointedly reported the fate of entrepreneurs in Xian who had managed a quick $7,600 profit by gouging buyers of woolen blankets; the merchants were punished with heavy fines. Storeowners in Peking who had hiked prices on 14-in. color TV sets to make an extra $100 profit were fined and reprimanded publicly. "This ill wind of arbitrary price rises must be resolutely checked," the paper insisted...
...million); five international relief agencies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund, 60 private volunteer bodies and the interests of 60 governments converged upon the broken land. In their eagerness to help, some groups brought in outdated drugs, woolen underpants of no use in a tropical land and, to cheer the refugees, Japanese children bearing harmonicas; in their ignorance, many pampered the very men who had shattered the country...
...sing like an angel on a soul-food bender, but a fair portion of his personal taste and his musical inspiration comes from the sort of glitzy places where soul seldom strays. One of his favorite things is My Favorite Things, sung by Julie Andrews, raindrops on roses, warm woolen mittens and all. He loves the Beatles, and he also loves Gordon MacRae booming his way through Oh What a Beautiful Morning...