Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flygirls to be just as saucy as the dishes they play onstage will find nothing of the sort. The characters may be a nice piece of sass, but the women who play them (Sabrina K. Blum '03, Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks '03, Jody E. Flader '02, Juliene James '00, Sofia A. Lidskog '01, Yayoi J. Shionoiri '00, and Jennie D. Tarr '01) are just plain nice. What these seven girls share most with the flygirls is their unbridled enthusiasm for the show. Despite the fact that they have one of the most rigorous rehearsal schedules in the cast--they have...
...Bulgarian counterpart on Saturday got the last laugh on the country?s post-communist authorities. Georgi Dimitrov?s body was cremated shortly after the collapse of communism in 1990, but following a fierce national debate, the present government decided to finish the job by destroying his mausoleum in downtown Sofia. So with the city center sealed off and tens of thousands of Bulgarians gathered to mark a symbolic occasion, government officials pressed the button detonating some 1,200 pounds of dynamite packed into the structure?s thick walls. But when the dust settled, the mausoleum had simply tilted a little...
...graduate of the University of Sofia,in Bulgaria, and is among the first theorists toexamine the implications of the structurallinguistics of poetics...
...Opera, set in Spain and you'll have some idea of the complex and quick moving Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos). The movie opens with Cesar, a millionaire playboy played by Eduardo Noriega, finding relief from a seductress Nuria by meeting the beautiful girl next door type Sofia (played by Penelope Cruz). Cesar spends the night at Sofia's apartment in what seems to be the match made in heaven, but as he walks to his car the next morning, he is intercepted by satanic Nuria, wearing a red dress and driving a red car to take Cesar...
...broker an honorable deal was also headed to town Thursday: Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin will meet Milosevic after consultations in Germany and Italy, hoping to generate momentum toward a negotiated settlement. The air war continues, meanwhile. One missile appears to have strayed into a suburb of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which caused considerable alarm in a country seeking NATO membership. And on the Yugoslavian home front, President Milosevic sacked Deputy Prime Minister Vuk Draskovic from his cabinet after Draskovic publicly urged acceptance of a foreign peacekeeping force in Kosovo. Draskovic may have been a lone voice in the cabinet...