By American standards, Kesey was and remains the author of one work, which he himself, naturally, did not like. In 1962 , the last thing anyone could have hoped for was that the brazenly published assignment for a creative writing course at Stanford, where an ambitious journalism graduate from provincial Oregon managed to get into, would become a symbol of a generation. Kesey didn't seem to want any of this.

"What boredom!.." Konstantin Polivanov Publication date: March 31, 2004 Last week, Komsomolskaya Pravda published a ministerial list of 379 topics - from which the very “packages” that will be offered to eleventh-graders at the final exam this year will be compiled. It's hard to find anything particularly surprising on this overwhelming list. As last year, a significant proportion are made up of topics structured according to the scheme “Poem by V.A. Zhukovsky / A.S. Pushkin / M.Yu.

Poor people Alexey Chadayev Publication date: March 31, 2004 The fight against poverty is the new slogan of the moment. Perhaps even more obvious than doubling GDP and the pursuit of Portugal : now, after the poignant prison confession of the “poor in spirit” Khodorkovsky, it is definitely the most important. We must understand: this is no longer just someone’s will or someone’s individual project, but a myth of general civil significance, as “glasnost” and “voucherization” once were.

Traitor Igor Mantsov Publication date: March 31, 2004 Vladimir Khotinenko’s film “72 Meters” still had the only chance. Nothing surprising: even the most hopeless, most resentful losers are given a chance by fate. So, the only promising line of the picture is the Garmash line . Of course, not God knows what, not Mannerheim’s line, but a real prospect of saving the film some kind of life.

Last week, Komsomolskaya Pravda unveiled a ministerial list of 379 topics - of which the same “packages” will be compiled that this year will offer eleventh graders in the final exam. It is difficult to find something especially unexpected on this exorbitant list. As last year, the subjects built according to the scheme “Poem by V.A. Zhukovsky/ A.S. Pushkin/ M.Yu. Limontova/ N.A. Nekrasov, etc. ... (perception, interpretation, assessment)” are made up of a significant share.

People of the air Alexey Nevzorov Publication date: March 31, 2004 In Odessa, “people of the air” prowl around coffee shops in order to earn a ruble and feed their family, but there is nothing to earn money on, and why should they let a useless person, a “man of air”, earn money? I.E. Babel "Odessa" They say that a lot of brilliant inventions, from crossword puzzles to underwater rocket launches, were made behind bars.

Tina and libertina Mikhail Vizel Publication date: March 31, 2004 The funniest opinion I heard about “Dreamers” was this: a touching film, with the right music, but, oh, if only it had been made not by these smug Europeans, but by a normal American director with a strong American producer, some Scorsese and Weinstein ! What a great love story they would have made - after, of course, they would have thrown out all these tedious arguments and ridiculous politics!

The enemy is at the gate Alexander Khramchikhin Publication date: March 31, 2004 The fact that, having lost the enemy, NATO has lost the meaning of its existence is largely confirmed by the fact of the bloc’s expansion to the East. One gets the strong impression that the powerful bureaucratic structure of the alliance has gone into self-survival mode, so expansion becomes an end in itself.

The film " Secret Window " was supposed to be released next year. But the tremendous success of " Pirates of the Caribbean " and, accordingly, Johnny Depp mixed up all the cards. Because Depp plays the main role in The Window. As a result, the premiere of the schizophrenic thriller, based on the Stephen King story “Secret Window, Secret Garden,” was released worldwide a couple of weeks ago. And, what’s nice, it quickly reached Russia.

The only chance of the film Vladimir Khotinenko "72 meters" was still. No wonder: even the most hopeless, most offended losers, fate provides a chance. So, the only promising line of the picture is the Garmash line . Of course, it is not God the news that is not Mannerheim’s line, but - a real prospect to save the film some kind of life.