Word: russianizing
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...decided to direct for stage and enrolled as a theater major at Hofstra University on Long Island. And then one afternoon in 1956, while a freshman, all my interests came together as I watched Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 silent masterpiece October: Ten Days That Shook the World, about the Russian revolution. I knew instantly I could combine storytelling with the innovation and technology of cinema...
...place of the gong, the wall next to the Adams card checker’s table now sports a frame displaying three items. On top is a letter, written in Russian, to the Danilov monks, followed by a picture of a box addressed to the monastery and a UPS packing slip also addressed to Moscow...
...Russia are very impulsive. They are very paranoid, thinking they are losing Georgia to the U.S. We need to let them feel we are open for good cooperation. And another thing: I have been congratulated by everyone except Putin - Blair, Bush, every leading European figure, all our neighbors. the Russians say they need to keep their Georgian bases for 10 years. I think these serve more to bolster imperial self-confidence than Russian security. We can find other things that serve Russian security better than these 2,000 troops. The Russians have interests like safeguarding their southern borders, making them...
...strike, which shut down many businesses in Port-au-Prince. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ye Cannae Dae That To many, the Scottish lilt is charming and even rather attractive (think Sean Connery). But not, it seems, to the British Foreign Office, which was forced to apologize for denying a Russian student a visa to study English in Scotland on the grounds that she would have difficulty understanding the accent. What could they mean? When Scottish groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons coined the expression "cheese-eating surrender monkeys," the whole world knew what he meant...
...such alarming news hardly made a splash in the United States. Sure, The New York Times ran its requisite coverage from the foreign desk and an editorial from out of nowhere praising the slow but steady progress of Russian democracy, but the talking heads simply brushed it aside, and the story became little more than a small blurb on Headline News. Instead of hearing about tainted elections, we heard about the Paris Hilton video. And while both are important in their own way, I’m pretty sure most of us would agree that Putin is a little...