Yakovlev, one of the architects of the reforms put in place by Mikhail Gorbachev, says he too is amazed at the government's lethargy.

Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man.

We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.

My girlfriend is very cuddly.