Word: valentine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before he struggled to a full count and brought the Fenway crowd to its feet did Sox batter John Valentin get called out on strikes to end the game...
...Boston--See Detroit. Even worse becaue of the Wil Cordero and John Valentin controversies...
Given the subsequent fame that many of the artists enjoyed, one is apt to suppose that their emigre life (especially in America) was secure, but actually it depended on stipends, teaching jobs and ad hoc support arranged by dealers--many of them emigres themselves, like Curt Valentin--and by a few museum officials, notably Alfred Barr Jr. of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Visas, stamps and bureaucratic routines took on a disproportionate significance, as they always do for the marginal. After the U.S. entered the war in 1941, the foreignness of some artists counted against them even more...
...history of "Tatiana's emergence is really quite simple," explains Valentin Yumachev, Yeltsin's close friend and ghostwriter. "The President decided in February that the campaign Soskovets was running was going nowhere. He needed someone he could trust completely, and she was it." None of Yeltsin's other senior campaign officials was "what you would call pleased with Tatiana's placement," adds Pavel Borodin, Yeltsin's Minister of the Presidency, the government's general-services manager. "But because she had no personal agenda they couldn't plot against her. Her power obviously derived from that, but also from her native...
...Russian presidential runoff elections, all was supposed to be quiet, persuant to a 24-hour moratorium on campaigning. But the Communists just couldn't quit. On Tuesday, campaign officials for Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov accused Russian Public Television of illegally censoring a political advertisement. While Zyuganov's campaign manager Valentin Kuptsov charged that omitting the five-minute advertisement was a serious breach of law, spokesmen for the TV channel said the ad was scrapped because it contained "unproven allegations" about election fraud and wasn't paid for. The Central Election Commission is expected to investigate the matter. But TIME...