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Frances Assa: I hope every one caught the opening ceremony. A little girl falls asleep over her Cyrillic alphabet book, and wonderful Russian things sail through the sky for each letter. Letter N...Nabokov!!!!!! Imagine.
JM: Imagine! What a strange company. I checked two sites ( no N pictures, though):
The 18-chapter, nearly three-hour opening ceremony began at the symbolic moment of 8:14 p.m. - 20:14, as time is counted here - and provided a majestic spectacle that included a glowing troika of horses made of light streaking through a snowbound sky, the multicolor onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral bobbing in the air; literary references to Gogol, Tolstoy and Nabokov; images of Stalinist skyscrapers; and performances by Russia's storied ballerinas, musicians and singers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/sports/olympics/russia-opens-sochi-games-with-pageantry-and-pride.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=0
The ceremony began with the Cyrillic alphabet and significant Russian figures or inventions attached to each letter: from Lake Baikal to Catherine The Great, corn mowing machines, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Television, and Pushkin. Then a young girl on a trapeze, dressed all in innocent white and called Love, began a journey through Russian history, beginning by floating above a series of virtual landscapes, including the birch forests of the Urals... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/07/sorry-putin-the-sochi-opening-ceremony-was-totally-gay.html
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Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
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JM: Imagine! What a strange company. I checked two sites ( no N pictures, though):
The 18-chapter, nearly three-hour opening ceremony began at the symbolic moment of 8:14 p.m. - 20:14, as time is counted here - and provided a majestic spectacle that included a glowing troika of horses made of light streaking through a snowbound sky, the multicolor onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral bobbing in the air; literary references to Gogol, Tolstoy and Nabokov; images of Stalinist skyscrapers; and performances by Russia's storied ballerinas, musicians and singers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/sports/olympics/russia-opens-sochi-games-with-pageantry-and-pride.html?hpw&rref=world&_r=0
The ceremony began with the Cyrillic alphabet and significant Russian figures or inventions attached to each letter: from Lake Baikal to Catherine The Great, corn mowing machines, Kandinsky, Nabokov, Television, and Pushkin. Then a young girl on a trapeze, dressed all in innocent white and called Love, began a journey through Russian history, beginning by floating above a series of virtual landscapes, including the birch forests of the Urals... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/07/sorry-putin-the-sochi-opening-ceremony-was-totally-gay.html
Search archive with Google:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=site:listserv.ucsb.edu&HL=en
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Visit "Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
Manage subscription options: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/