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...Soviet Union is currently getting Western technology-notably computers, petrochemical processes, energy equipment, consumer plants-at about the pace it can absorb. The credits for these imports, although limited in the U.S. by congressional demands for free emigration from Russia, are usually available from Europe, Japan and Canada. Western unemployment, spiraling prices, crime and drug problems are appalling to Soviet citizens, who are informed of them, gleefully, by the official press, television and radio. Although some broadcasting from the West is no longer jammed, the Soviet view of realities outside their censored world is dim and nickering, like the images...
...Raymonda is so studded with spectacular solos, pas de deux, pas de trois, pas de quatres, stylistic evocations of folk dance and rousing ensemble displays that it is rather like a 19-course meal devised by an overeager master chef. There are almost too many delights to absorb. One of them, certainly, is a revitalized Erik Bruhn, who brings to the secondary role of the Saracen his magisterial elegance of line, as well as a Tartar-like ferocity surprising in a dancer noted for ethereal courtliness. Hampered by an ankle injury, Nureyev as Jean de Brienne performed his four demanding...
...Cohen, whomever. In fact, everyone in pop is influenced by others at one time or another. How can it be otherwise in a tight little world where the assimilation of newer, farther-out musical ideas is an honorable endeavor -one that was once performed by the Beatles? Elton may absorb more because he listens more. He spends hours in record stores and eventually buys quad, stereo, cassette and 8-track cartridge versions of the same album. Then he compares them for quality. His record collection alone numbers...
...feel no Schadenfreude in anyone's victory, anyone's suffering, or in the notion that we can find better people to help. Of the country's capacity to absorb this relatively small number of refugees there is no doubt. Of the country's capacity to recover from its orgy of grievance and self-pity, its striking out blindly at those who remind us of past errors, there is considerably more doubt...
...present, the museum is already short of about 35,000 square feet of space and could not absorb its holdings from the areas that would be closed off. So the climate control system, whose cost was estimated at $500,000 five years ago, really can't be installed until the Fogg gets its addition, which Slive says will cost at least $7,000,000. And so he sits in his office, surrounded by a selection of the Fogg's surplus holdings, waiting for the knock of some donor who will liberate them...