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...think they are from the old structures where conservative elements were concentrated. They were at various levels of the party apparatus, in the administrative bureaucracy and in the military-industrial complex...
Alas, we are not able so easily to dismiss this effort, and the danger is that because it looks serious, and has lots of scholarly apparatus with which to advance and defend its serious positions, we must take it seriously. Its danger is not so much that it confronts a touchy subject and tilts against the currents of political correctness...
These are bold paintings, but not in a macho way. They accept hesitation as part of the normal apparatus of consciousness. You don't get the image all at once, and the size of the canvases is meant not so much to impress you in the familiar, take-it-or-leave-it American fashion as to draw you slowly into the web. This, too, is part of Pollock's often misunderstood legacy. Looking at the "Cold Mountain" paintings one inevitably thinks of nature: thin they are, and austere, but also full of light and space. They suggest mountain landscapes, rocks...
Yeltsin contends that the presidential envoys are needed to override Communist apparatchiks who still control many localities and would otherwise block any changes. More generally, his supporters contend that Yeltsin, faced with the surviving party apparatus and a divided, if not splintered, parliament, must in effect initiate reforms by decree. But to opponents the * dispatch of the namestniki smacks of an old czarist practice. The parliament consequently wants them replaced by locally elected administrators; Yeltsin fears that many of those elected will be Communists, who are better organized than the democrats. Parliament refuses to postpone local elections, Yeltsin has vetoed...
...country, ever more prosperous, moves rightward. In the 1988 presidential election, the Communist Party polled only 6.8%. Nonetheless, even as Soviet totalitarianism self- destructs, President Francois Mitterrand's minority Socialist government depends on 26 Communist deputies to pass its legislation. Unlike Communist parties in Italy and Spain, France's apparatus has no plans to change its name. Forty-six of France's 226 largest cities, including Bobigny, remain in Communist Party hands. And there, the mood is a mixture of nostalgic regret and last-ditch defiance...