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... a lava pond with more colorful Koi fish swimming around as if they were doing an aquatic ballet. A canopy of green ivy above filtered the morning s... ...er you can find out about this so-called Professor Ivan Zlatamir. By name and accent he’s Russian, but he acts like a Nazis.” “You think Kensey’s i... ...tral figure in what’s happening. Do you know anything about him?” “Zlatamir is an elitist Russian. Like Stalin, he yearns for world dominance. He wa... ...as enormous help in counter-espionage. With his help we eliminated, at least, twenty-five Russian spies working in our Capitol. He was also instrume... ...atamir’s brain child.” “You have no idea what’s going on?” “I can only tell you that the Russians and the Chinese are part of it.” “What part of ou... ... else did it say?” “It said that the weapons would be deployed within two months with the Russians and Chinese full cooperation.” “Why do you assum...

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...“Prophete” in which we did just that, the mare’s steps performing a powerful ballet guided solely by my legs and the ribbon. Again I glared at the me... ...ricks that I had taught Josephine over time. However, the remainder of the balletic freestyle dressage went well enough. I returned to the paddock t... ...ar. You must not miss it. And now, I must return backstage to my corps de ballet. I will see you soon, my friend.” When the second act began and ... ...entleman dandy. I wondered how I would keep the neighborhood soubrettes and ballet dancers from beating down the door to get at my majordomo. Gilber... ...re?” “Come to the opera house this afternoon. I’m rehearsing a new corps de ballet. One of those silly girls is bound to be taken with your handsom... ...reate some of my favorite recipes for madeleines and cheese crisps, and had Russian tea and American coffee on offer. The ladies came to the first ...

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... Nations would be pushing hard for full membership into the Alliance, and the Russian's staunch opposition to it, favoring a 120 J.Cross/Artemis ... ...p Alliance instead, with several escape clauses attached. The talk of another Russian revolution was gathering like dark clouds on the horizon. The o... ...k clouds on the horizon. The old KGB and the disgruntled military against the Russian people could amount to another Stalinesque slaughter. The se... ... distributors. But, for their businesses to flourish, they need our European, Russian, and US distribution networks. Therefore, we have all formed a... ...ly of drugs, what will happen on the East coast? The 196 J.Cross/Artemis Russians and the Puerto Ricans will not stand still for this." "The R... ... through the majestic gardens. The Koi fish huddled, and swam like a colorful ballet. A few of them stretched their bodies out of the water, as if t...

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...ave trained to attack minorities, primarily blacks. Their rationalizations are that they are protecting the purity of the race or protecting Russia... ... type of work that one does, but often it revolves around academic interests, so the biological researcher or the carpenter with interests in ballet... ...ltzers of the State Opera, the symphony of strings, the enthusiasm of the conductor and his audience. Then there was the Jerome Robbins modern ballet... ...s Fancy Free. Then there was Anna Pavlova in the Dying Swan and Rudolf Nureyev in Stone Flower. Sounds like many of my peaks were in opera and ballet...

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...tments to negative consequences. When the people‘s revolution replaced the Russian czar, economics went backward. Through wars and pogroms, men disa... ...ducation. The overthrow of Communism brought some positive changes. But the Russian mafia emerged. The world moves by fits and starts. Some moves are... ...oung Pioneer Palaces of the Soviet Union. This was the best thing that the Russian Communists did. Their huge buildings housed innumerable activitie... ... huge buildings housed innumerable activities that the child could pursue: ballet, sports, astronomy, physics or chemistry, music composition and pe...

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...ic is Rimsky's but they were playing music from that composer earlier. He is Russian, one of the best, I think." Sang Huin smiled at the acquaintance... ...uced and memorizing names that she would forget once out of there (one young Russian who exercised with Michael at a fitness center and had the most ... ...reeding. He was a busy little entrepreneur opening a fitness center with his Russian friend one month, an Internet cafe the next, and some minor inves... ...nﾁO about. One time you were spacing out and talkinﾁO ﾁObout your son and a Russian boy, packing and coming here." She remembered: shortly before sh... ...It isnﾁOt called St. Michaels." "Whatever. Answer my question." "There is a Russian kid who pesters me." "Well, donﾁOt look at it as pestering. IﾁOd... ... met at the zoo in front of the spider monkeys. From there they went to the ballet. At the ballet he spoke to her in Russian. She thought of it as ...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree....

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...1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece ... ...finished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the li... ...thing which, for want of a better term, might be called the quality of the Russian soul. The English reader familiar with the works of Dostoieffsky, T... ...is that makes of Dead Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author’s Spanish and English masters. Still ... ...e plot of the earlier work The Revisor, which is almost the only comedy in Russian. The impor- tance of both is their introduction of the social eleme... ...mostly middle-aged bachelors and old men who are accustomed to seek in the ballet and similar frivolities a further spur to their waning passions. Hav... ...arned to portray. Next, his delight led him gracefully to execute a hop in ballet fashion, so that the wardrobe trembled and a bottle of eau-de-Cologn... ..., he began once more to dream of such allurements as theatre-going and the ballet girl after whom he had for some time past been dangling. Gradually d...

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...rode into Makhmet, a hostile Chechen aoul that lay some fifteen miles from Russian territory and was filled with the scented smoke of burning Kizyak. ... ...nd the eagles tear first one and then an- other of them. The other day the Russian dogs burnt the hay in the Mitchit aoul….May their faces be torn!” h... ...ng now started talking, was telling how their brave fellows had caught two Russian soldiers the week before and had killed one and sent the other to S... ...nished he said: “Very well. Now we must send a man with a letter to the Russians. My murid will go but he will need a guide.” “I will send broth... ...g a single word, immediately asked: “Canst thou conduct my murid to the Russians?” “I can,” gaily replied Bata. “I can certainly do it. There is... ...icholas’ s great strategic ability . After dinner Nicholas drove to the ballet where hun- dreds of women marched round in tights and scanty clothin... ...scanty clothing. One of the specially attracted him, and he had the German ballet-master sent for and gave orders that a diamond ring should be presen...

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...ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett A Penn ... ...sity. 3 Turgenev ON THE EVE a Novel By IVAN TURGENEV T ranslated from the Russian By Constance Garnett With an introduction by Edward Garnett LONDON:... ...T o the English reader On the Eve is a charmingly drawn picture of a quiet Russian household, with a delicate analysis of a young girl’s soul; but to ... ...rating diagnosis of the destinies of the Russia of the fifties. Elena, the Russian girl, is the central figure of the novel. In comparing her with T u... ...y love. 6 On the Eve And now to see what the novel before us means to the Russian mind, we must turn to the infinitely suggestive back- ground. Turge... ...cer. But you’ve taken up a pseudo-classical pose, for all the world like a ballet-dancer, when she reclines upon a rock of paste-board. You should rem...

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...h was then dignified by the name of sagacity. They turned their backs on a Russian prince with whom they had all been on intimate terms during the Emi... ... In his last affair, thinking he was followed by his men, he dashed upon a Russian battery and was taken prisoner. I was there. His brave act roused m... ... eight, counting Paz. After Warsaw was sold we were forced to escape those Russians. By a curious chance, Paz and I happened to come together again, a... ... arrested by some Prussians, who made them- selves the blood-hounds of the Russians. When we have fished a man out of the Styx we cling to him. This n... ...Opera?” “No,” she answered, “I don’t like dancing, and they give an odious ballet to-night ‘La Revolte au Serail.’” There was a moment’s silence. “T w... ... year ago,” he said to himself, “she thought me a hero who could fight the Russians single-handed!” He thought of leaving the hotel Laginski, and taki...

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...Corniani, Call me the only virtuous wife in Spain? Were there not also Russians, English, many? The Count Strongstroganoff I put in pain, ... ...und, Were landed in the market, one and all, And there with Georgians, Russians, and Circassians, Bought up for different purposes and passion... ...g of course. ‘My boy!’ said he, ‘amidst this motley crew Of Georgians, Russians, Nubians, and what not, All ragamuffins differing but in hue, ... ...air, Is that which I would learn.’— ‘I served for some Months with the Russian army here and there, And taking lately, by Suwarrow’s bidding, ... ...drank six cups of coffee at the least, And then withdrew to hear about the Russians, Whose victories had recently increased In Catherine’s rei... ...oting indispensable; He danced without theatrical pretence, Not like a ballet master in the van Of his drill’d nymphs, but like a gentleman. B...

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... tradesman’s wife, a woman of easy virtue, a duch- ess or a brazen-fronted ballet-dancer, an innocent young girl or a too innocent foreigner, can appe... ... madame,” said the propri- etor with unshaken composure; “it belonged to a Russian princess, the Princess Narzicof; she left it with me in pay- ment f...

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...lle, the naval disaster in the Dardanelles, the sinking of the Falaba, the Russian defeat in the Masurian Lakes, all deepened the bishop’s impression ... ...hole collection of pretty costume plates into the mysteries of the “Ussian Ballet” and the works of Mousso’gski and “Imsky Ko’zakof.” The bishop liked... ...ghtful battle, where the German phalanx of guns pounds its way through the Russian hosts. Here is a young German talking to two wounded Russian prison... ...the roadside. He is a German of East Prussia; he knows and thinks a little Russian. And they too are saying, all three of them, that the war is not Go... ...ench and Germans? Why someday shouldn’t French, German, Dutch and English, Russian and Pole, ride together under this new star of mankind, the Souther... ... passion of a mission. The English were indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world w...

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...velled much, served in war, then been employed in different courts. He was Russian to the backbone, and his extreme avarice much damaged his talents. ... ...is father had attained the crown, although only of ordinary rank among the Russian nobility. These patriarchs were dependent upon those of the Greek r... ...ity, and of sweet recollections of his early years, his grace at fetes and ballets, his splendid gallantries, wished that the King, in imitation of th... ...hed that the King, in imitation of the deceased monarch, should dance in a ballet. It was a little too early to think of this. This plea- sure seemed ... ... were admitted simply for the purpose of adding strength and beauty to the ballet, by the grace of their faces and the el- egance of their movements, ... ...t of the King or elsewhere, and declared that his Majesty would dance in a ballet. Everything was soon ready for the execution. It was not so with the... ...sk M. le Duc d’Orleans to allow his son, who danced very well, to join the ballet company! The Regent, always easy, still enamoured of Law, and, to sp... ...ank and precedence. Thus Bissy and Villeroy found Dubois closeted with the Russian minis- ter. It was proposed to inform the Cardinal at once, of a th... ...est. The audience being over, Dubois came from his cabinet, conducting the Russian minister, and immediately saw his sofa so well ornamented. He saw n...

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... irritated Birkin. They were all drinking champagne. Maxim, the prim young Russian with the smooth, warm-coloured face and black, oiled hair was the o... ...’m sure I should die—I’m sure I should.’ ‘I hope not,’ whispered the young Russian. ‘I’m sure I should, Maxim,’ she asseverated. 66 ‘Then one won’t c... ... uneasiness. ‘And are you afraid of nothing else, Pussum?’ asked the young Russian, in his quick, hushed, elegant manner. ‘Not weally,’ she said. ‘I a... ...ay. ‘He’s going to cat, Maxim,’ said the Pussum warningly. The suave young Russian rose and took Halliday by the arm, leading him away. Birkin, white ... ...drunk one glass—only one glass,’ came the rapid, hushed voice of the young Russian. They all moved off to the door. The girl kept near to Gerald, and ... ...mi, Gudrun was Ruth, the Contessa was Orpah. The idea was to make a little ballet, in the style of the Russian Ballet of Pavlova and Nijinsky. The Con...

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...the father interviewed in 1814, declared that he had seen him taken by the Russians. Mme. de l’Estorade died of grief whilst a vain search was being m... ...in Paris. Miss Griffith has found out also that Alphonse is in love with a ballet-girl at the Opera. How is it possible to fall in love with legs and ... ...ces there; he applauds the steps of this creature, and then goes out. T wo ballet-girls in a family are, I fancy, more destructive than the plague. My... ...des dividuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind, i... ...land!” We both laughed; but I must explain the joke. The evening before, a Russian princess had told us an anecdote of this gentle- man. He had suffer... ...old, the dream of his youth, had no brains. Oh! my dear, I am worse than a ballet-dancer! If you knew what joy that slighting remark gave me! I have p...

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...fourth word, the bride I led Changed to an Opera dancer. 110 VIII A young ballet-beauty, who perked in her place, A darling of pink and spangles; One... ..., and who sat there unbent. XVI ‘“We stood in line, and like hedgehogs the Russians rolled under us thick. They frightened me there.”—He’s no coward; ... ...and at last I was vexed, And swore I would never surrender a foot when the Russians charged next. XIX ‘“I know that life’s worth keeping.”—Ay, so it i... ...But my life belongs to a woman.”—Does that mean Her Majesty, Miss?— “These Russians came lumping and grinning: they’re fierce at it, though they are ... ...y musket, prepared.” Why, that’s a fine pick-a-back for ye, to make twenty Russians look scared! “They came—never mind how many: we couldn’t have run... ...no more than angel, or devil, except in the wind. I know that I swore at a Russian for showing his teeth, and he grinned The harder: quick, as from h...

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...a savage cantata against the Corsican upstart, who had lately met with his Russian re- verses)—Mr. Dobbin tried to hum it as he walked away, and found... ...n full view of the jealous opera-glass opposite. And when the time for the ballet came (in which there was no dancer that went through her grimaces or... ...ney can bring into the field,” Mr. Sedley objected; “the Austrians and the Russians are on their march. He must, he shall be crushed,” Jos said, slapp... ... is coming, but with the Empress and the King of Rome at its head; and the Russians, bah! the Russians will withdraw. No quarter is to be given to the... ...stormy excitement, and the third syllable is concluded. There was a little ballet, “Le Rossignol,” in which Montessu and Noblet used to be famous in t... ...ing his verse, of which he was a skilful writer, to the pretty airs of the ballet. It was dressed in old French costume, and little Lord Southdown now... ...h he has sold you. Innocent, by —! Y ou’re as innocent as your mother, the ballet-girl, and your husband the bully. Don’t think to frighten me as you ... ...that there cannot be any possibility of truth in the report that she was a Russian spy at Toplitz and Vienna after- wards. I have even been informed t... ... the Most Noble Order of the Garter, of the Golden Fleece of Spain, of the Russian Order of Saint Nicholas of the First Class, of the Turkish Order of...

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... of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And there is the cathedral to boot: scene like: all grim, and swart... ...gigantic, and almost blots out an actor. They usually play a comedy, and a ballet. The comic man in the comedy I saw one summer night, is a waiter in ... ...ld be so tedious. It is the triumph of art. 46 Pictures from Italy In the ballet, an Enchanter runs away with the Bride, in the very hour of her nupt... ...of a pas de deux; and the going off with a bound!—I shall never see a real ballet, with a composed countenance again. I went, another night, to see th... ...by long avenues of trees. In the splendid theatre of La Scala, there was a ballet of action performed after the opera, under the title of Prometheus: ... ... eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigners, nailed to their faces a...

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...ious li- quors, Giroudeau pointed out to Philippe a plump and agile little ballet-girl whom he called Florentine, whose good graces and affection, tog... ...ig stom- ach, a face like a ploughman, and a nose like a potato, can get a ballet-girl, I ought to be the lover of the first actress in Paris. Where d... ...s, we fre- quently meet with men so fascinated with actresses, singers, or ballet-dancers, that they are willing to become directors of a theatre out ... ...cash- ier, the hero of heroes, was in love with Mariette, the cel- ebrated ballet-dancer at the Porte-Saint-Martin. The news was a thunder-clap to the... ...m a good place, and there he is, leading the life of a Sardanapalus with a ballet-girl, and guzzling the funds of his journal; that costs the mother a... ...nts to pay them off. After squandering the fortunes of two En- glishmen, a Russian, and an Italian prince, Mademoiselle Esther is now in poverty; give...