Word: rudkin
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...British director Tony Palmer's new film, Testimony, dramatizes the view that Shostakovich was a closet dissident who was bitterly resentful of the system that shackled him. In David Rudkin's elegant screenplay, Shostakovich (Ben Kingsley) negotiates his artistic salvation through public acquiescence, gratefully accepting his humiliation at a 1948 Soviet Composers' Union meeting and ritualistically denouncing Stravinsky at a conference the next year in New York City. Always he is haunted by the doom- laden specter of Stalin (Terence Rigby), who is seen thumbing through dossiers while sitting by the telephone, dispatching his opponents to their graves simply...
Most companies started in the past by women specialized in fashion, food and other areas traditionally viewed as women's work. Examples of early successes: Florence Nightingale Graham co-founded the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company in 1910, and Margaret Fogarty Rudkin started Pepperidge Farm in 1937. But today women own all kinds of firms. While the majority are service companies (women own nearly half of all retail businesses, for example), female entrepreneurs are also making rapid headway in manufacturing, construction, mining and other industrial fields...