European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes March columns comments today crossword the soviet wife a rare and exotic Bird by Ellen Goodman on the Moscow watchers in the United states Are a lot like their comrades at the Audubon they need a trained Eye and a lot of patience to see anything even they dont always get what they Are looking this has been a time when the watchers kept their binoculars the third soviet Leader in 28 months died the Mikhail ascend full of 54yearold youth and but the True event of this soviet season was the Early and scattered sighting of the for the first time in modern we have this Rara Avis the wife of her name is and she was shown not not but three times on a network news announcement of her husbands new of Raisa Gorbachev is not the first wife in soviet Stalin had Brezhnev had you can remember the name of any one of these you May move six spaces ahead on the trivial Pursuit the wives of the top soviets have been As camera shy As a Copper tailed no one was sure that Andropov wife was even alive until she was seen at his the stereotype of a soviet Leader is a Man in a heavy a fur hat and no visible neck because he donated it to the War the stereotype of a soviet woman is one who poses for the socialist real ism pinup Calendar in Basic but Gorbachev wife Raisa was dubiously to Derek of the by the British she is said to be a 51yearold professor at Moscow univer a Mother of and a grandmother of her plumage was what won Western especially during her december flight to the daily Mirror said of what a Chic lady is and what a contrast to the pre Vious glimpses of other senior russian wives the daily mail even labelled the Gorbachev the Gucci i confess to being amused by International Public there is nothing that the Western world finds quite so reassuring As when the socialist world behaves like it is not unusual for like the to pick the Western portents out of the soviet our nightly news features a Moscow aerobics class or a Roc music craze As proof of the popularity of things one Book after another on the soviet Union details the soviet passion for we do it the same Way the soviets keep publishing pictures of Street people sleeping on grates in new York it is the but information that reinforces our sense of its rather like find ing out that Stalin liked jazz or the Early reports that Andropov played Tennis and listened to Glenn the i is that Many americans think the ultimate attraction of democracy int free speech or its its there is the quintessential scene in Moscow on the Hudson when a russian on tour in America impulsively defects in the Middle of he is converted by shop of the newest soviet version dare i say imitation of Western the political wife any experienced Moscow watcher Worth a pair of binoculars knows that the first Raisa has been it takes More than one to make a c 1985 Washington Post writers group offers give Way to screamers by Russell Baker 1 had a insensate hankering to see an 1 wanted to see men sit tall in the i wanted to see a posse Headin pm off at Eagle i wanted to see strangers walking into saloons and inviting the sneers of the Dalton gang by ordering Sarsa which they would pronounce 1 wanted to see the eyes of Strong men narrow to slits As they studied Indian smoke signals which said crazy horse was in a foul mood Over in the very next 1 wanted to see men who spent their whole lives on except when bedded Down with but still managed to smell socially acceptable at the Church an Oater that what i wanted to but they dont make Waters any they make go see a said my movie but i didst want to see the Best mom who Ever lived and still looking not a Day older than her 22yearold daughter get abandoned by her Rotten take to alcohol and contract a terminal Case of i wanted to see an old overt Hill gunfighter ride into town and stay just Long enough to give a Rotten husband the thrashing of his an Oater i and there were no they make but i didst want to see a its fun watching the Village maniac succumb to the full Moon and sprout tusks from his upper and take a Chain saw to the schoo marm and the but not i wanted to see a marshal give the Dalton gang until Sundown to get out of town and take their guns with i wanted to hear the marshal and if youre thinking of coming Back with Chain saws to do up the schoo marm and the widow and ill give you a piece of advice when you saw at an Pater i but there were no i did not want to see a the Only Way id want to see a spacer is if they combined it with a Basher and if Arnold Schwa Zeneg playing the collided Headon with the to Lier Chanthou but look How ill tempered this weeper screamer Bashe spacer movie menu can make the gentlest of it is a calming Oater i need to i want to hear the Wagon looking out across the Prairie sure looks like its a Man Riding this but if its one of them preachy aliens from outer space or one of them robots wearing human hide and Hes made a big mistake because look Over Over there 1 want to see the whole cavalry arriving with Sand for the robots gear but ready to turn him Over to the immigration people for deporting if he turns out to be just another knee Jerk Liberal an i try a i am i grind my i do not want to see a 1 do not want to watch incredibly Beautiful adolescents wrestle with primitive i know adolescents Are tormented by the biological urge to that entertainment in teeters the adolescents never have but that int enough to justify i want to see a sheriff facing the Pecos just before he goes for his i want to hear the sheriff i Al ways knew there was something unnatural about a kid with no but the Oater is i Hope John Wayne didst take it with not times to wednesdays Ana rant a mama a Hiya of huh Ana 321 vhf a50n5umffs w Mont by Eugene Sheffer across 1 skirt part 4 adages 8 Black Birds 12 author Levin 13 cover 14 writer James 15 Painter Rene 17 additional 18 siesta 19 red Bird 21 drunk 24 cloth scrap 25chapeau 26 Down 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