Word: vadim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vadim Medvedev, 59. A brainy culture specialist who rose through the ranks of the Leningrad party organization, Medvedev since 1983 has headed the Central Committee's Science and Education Department. His appointment as a voting member of the Politburo, over the heads of seven nonvoting members waiting in the wings for such a summons, is little short of astonishing. In effect, moreover, he was given Ligachev's ideological portfolio. Promoted...
...member policy-making Central Committee also named Vadim A. Medvedev a full Politburo member and gave him responsibility for ideology...
Thirty years ago, Roger Vadim created And God Created Woman and created Brigitte Bardot. Now the French director has seen fit to update his classic handiwork. The man who made stars -- and conquests -- of such leading ladies as Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda has just finished an identically titled 1980s version that is the "same idea," he says, but the "heroine is different." Juliette, the saucy French hedonist, has become Robin Shay, an aspiring American musician. She "believes in her freedom over everything," says Rebecca De Mornay, 24, who plays the part. "And she's afraid of the intimacy...
...mellow summer evening last week, Captain Vadim Markov ordered his aged passenger liner unmoored in the Black Sea port of Novorossisk. The 17,053-ton Admiral Nakhimov steamed out of the harbor, bound for Sochi, 115 miles to the southeast, with 1,234 souls on board: a crew of 350 and 884 tourists, all Soviet citizens, enjoying a late-season coastal cruise. A band was playing on deck, and some of the passengers danced beneath brilliant lights that reflected off the dark waters...
Some men kiss and do not tell; they are called gentlemen. Some men tell but do not kiss; they are called liars. Some men kiss and tell; they are called best- seller writers. The latest is Director Roger Vadim, who modestly subtitles his work "My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World." No. 1: Brigitte Bardot. She was 15, he was 22. When they parted, he was forgiving: "She always suffered if she had an affair with more than one man at a time." No. 2: Catherine Deneuve. She was 17, he was 32. Not long afterward...