Word: eurasian
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...Stalinist map of the country, and have used it as the basis for carrying out perestroika, accepting this unified landmass as a historic entity. Our tensions spring from an inadequate understanding of a most crucial fact: the U.S.S.R. is not a country, nor is it a state. The Eurasian territory that is marked as such on the maps is a world of worlds made of different cultures and civilizations. It is a neighborhood of states and nations that are tired of their colonial and colonizing past, that have been tortured and humiliated by Stalinist efforts at unification...
...forces of democracy, Gorbachev gave new luster to the great-man theory. He may not be able to control those forces himself. They could even sweep him away, just as they did Egon Krenz and Karoly Grosz and Milos Jakes. But no matter what happens next in the great Eurasian land mass where 1.8 billion people live under communism -- and no matter what happens to Gorbachev himself -- he has established his place in history as the catalyst of a new European reality. "Any nation has the right to decide its fate by itself," he said last month in a parliamentary...
Musically, the Les Miz team here provides something subtler, less lushly melodramatic. Bowman and Claire Moore as his wife make the best of thankless parts, although his pitch and accent wobble while she sings gloriously. Jonathan Pryce is deliciously campy yet sympathetic as the Engineer, a Eurasian pimp evocative of the emcee in Cabaret. In Salonga, a star is born. Playing a plaster saint, she is stunningly real. But the show's final moments are so bleak that despite an $8 million advance, its future may not be assured. Some downers, like Les Miz, are at heart ups. This...
NOMADS: MASTERS OF THE EURASIAN STEPPE, Denver Museum of Natural History. The patterns of daily life among the ancient nomadic tribes of Central Asia are vividly reconstructed in this archaeological and ethnographic exhibit mounted by the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. June 4 through Sept...
...series of watercolors that follows the European kings' portraits shows the influence Western Europe had on this Eurasian art. While a great many of the geometric patterns and bright colors which distinguish Islamic art are still present, it is evident through the number of scenes of daily life that the Ottoman world's contact with Europe had influenced its culture. Although many of the watercolors do accompany religious texts, they show scenes of bridal gowns, gardeners and poets as well as spiritual situations...