I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s and into my 30s I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials the Foreign Ministry nerds tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell...
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants...
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.