Under the shadow of a widow in bloom Shirley McMyrley Publication date: June 7, 2000 With some elusive periodicity, Americans are overcome by the desire to look beautiful on screen. Then they begin to make hats in the Art Nouveau style, invite British stars to play the leading roles, speak with a French accent and give Oscars to The English Patient . Or film Titanic . At worst, something cheaper. Like "In the Villa" . The action of such a film takes place in a beautiful and exotic place.

Century = text. Issue 13: 1913 Egor Otroshchenko Publication date: June 6, 2000 POEM OF THE YEAR | PHRASE OF THE YEAR | CHRONICLE | SELECTED QUOTES | CHARACTERS AND PERFORMERS Poem of the Year Kanzeli In a noisy moire dress, in a noisy moire dress Along the sun-lit alley you pass the sea... Your dress is exquisite, your talma is azure, And the sandy path is patterned with leaves - Like spider legs, like jaguar fur. For a sophisticated woman, the night is always a newlywed...

President Clinton in Kyiv - the view of the Ukrainian media Vitaly Portnikov Publication date: June 7, 2000 The festive tone of the visit of the President of the United States to the Ukrainian capital influenced the media of this country in a rather opposite way. Most observers in Kyiv analyze not so much the political results of the visit, but express their impressions of the show that took place on St. Michael's Square in the center of Kyiv.

Uzbekistan Under the Net Daniil Kislov Publication date: June 7, 2000 Reviewing the Uzbek Internet zone while sitting in rainy Moscow is a lot of fun. Especially when you come from the North a little further south, when you have just come from a walk around Mon Repos , when you got your feet wet in the Gulf of Finland, when your temperature is in the forties, and you feel like you’re in Tashkent’s Mustakillik (Independence) Square in Saraton ( the hottest time of the year is the end of July).

Susan Langer. Philosophy in a new key: A study of the symbolism of reason, ritual and art / Transl. from English S.P. Evtushenko; general edition and subsequent V.P. Shestakova. - M.: Republic, 2000. The main attraction of this book is the wild translation. I had a roommate in the Student House on Vernadsky, and he once translated a text about ancient sculpture from the enemy language.