In his post as a foreign correspondent, Mr. Kleins reported from Moscow that the Soviet Union was collapsing. In addition to a series of Page One articles that recorded the news, he found the perfect metaphor for the airline’s collapsing superpower.
March 22, 1991
Moscow — Carry-on baggage is safely stored. This includes a Twitter bird cage, a giant gleaming, gear-like metal block from one of Stalin’s Dynamo, an exciting home-cooked bag, tableware, trunk leg vodka, and a portable air mattress. included. Wait three days in the airport lounge, a circus performer trampoline. This is all the comfort of the Lampen Jet on Aeroflot.
This is a Soviet communist airline, the largest in the world, and a metaphor for the plunging wheezing of the embarrassed state of Soviet life.
If economic competition were to be truly attempted here, Aeroflot would have to be cut into rivals like mythical creatures, and abused passengers could only expect to witness their writhing.
By the time of this flight, each passenger was given a glass of water. This is a total of cabin attendant amenities that give off a serious spirit with the arrogant eyebrows that are characteristic of Aeroflot.
Most comrades take off their shoes and spread, and many are dozing with their mouths open in permanent control, a Soviet air travel. Sleeping people resemble exhausted galley allsmen. They are the collective sagging wrapped in orbit trapped in a monolith, the laughing stains on a beard and fur hat, and the seat belts that many hang in oblivion when they take off.
Covering the Carter Reagan campaign for the President in 1980, Mr. Kleins took readers behind the scenes for a sharply observed slice of campaign life.
October 21, 1980
Chicago, October 17-“Honey, we’re late,” Nancy Reagan called for being in fact Reagan’s hearth.
But Ronald Reagan was still busy in the office — at the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport in New York, giving Jimmy Carter a final knock once or twice, squinting and listening to the news reporter.
He finally returned to Nancy. Nancy was waiting with a ridiculous smile on “the politicians.” And the Republican presidential candidate went up the stairs, smiling at his wife at the perfect sitcom timing that all presidential couples Jimmy and Rosalin, John and Keke would see across the United States.
The news reporter felt uneasy and skipped this curtain scene. A cheerful man jumped out of the flock and returned to the plane seat of the second jet, Reagan Media’s “Zoo,” where he stood up on the engine, telling an unusually exciting development.
“Hello, hello,” the hilarious man said to the anchor desk where Action News witnesses were alive, with a microphone connection on the plane. “I’m going here,” he said, cocking the baritone like a revolver. “And 3, 2, 1:’Ronald Reagan today agreed to a one-on-one discussion with President Carter …'”
Thus, the hope that the campaign may prove to be more than an isolated jet caravan traveling separately across the United States on the nightly television news screen has returned.
In 1993, the Bronx Zoo changed its name. In Mr. Klein’s hands, it’s a one-sided story, with a confused ironic soup lurking just below the surface of the Times.
February 4, 1993
The New York Zoological Society has determined that the word “zoo” has become an urban zoo on a limited horizon and announced yesterday that it will remove the word from Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, Queens Zoo and Prospect Park Zoo.
Society Chairman William Conway said it will be called a wildlife conservation park from Monday. But he says he has to do something about the little words.
“I’ve been here for 37 years, and it’s like changing the name of my dad,” he said. “But it’s about time.”
After discussing the idea of abandoning the “zoo” for the past two years, it’s time for social directors to finally agree with Mr. Conway and take seriously the city and the world that society runs far more than zoos. I said I came. , 158 conservation and research projects are active around the world.
“It’s far beyond what you see at the zoo,” Conway said unspeakably during the interview.
“It’s a short, sharp zoo. I know there was a problem,” he said. “But in the American Heritage Dictionary, the word” zoo “has a secondary meaning of the situation or place marked by” rampant confusion or confusion. ” We are not confused or confused. And it’s really too late for the simple idea of a traditional zoo. The sea needs to change. “
With a history of 98 years, the association is moving in a direction that makes it hard to see the word in its title, and has officially changed its name to NYZS / The Wildlife Conservation Society.
