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With the help of the Russian Ministry of Culture, curators Joseph Bakshtein, Kathrin Becker, Zdenka Gabalova and Alanna Heiss have done a remarkable job on a very tight budget. A sampling of Socialist Realism was included in a broader Russian exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1977, but otherwise nothing like this show has been seen in America before. The very notion of an American museum asking for Stalinist paintings seems so weird that any interest in them is bound to seem morbid. To look at, say, Vasili Svarog's ebullient 1939 painting of Stalin and the jolly...
...nearly five years later, Savitch's troubled life is being resurrected in two searing biographies: Almost Golden by Gwenda Blair, a veteran magazine writer, and Golden Girl by Author Alanna Nash. The books tell many of the same painful stories, but while Nash writes a cautionary tale about personal ambition gone amuck, Blair sets Savitch's rise and fall against the larger backdrop of television-news history. Ultimately, neither writer completely succeeds in conveying what made Savitch run, perhaps because her personal demons were so well masked...
With the defense slack, Leelee Groome stepped up and smashed the ball on goal. Forward Kate Felsen deflected the shot past Springfield's diving goalie, Alanna Macdonald, and into...