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...saying 7). She's from Korea -- was found abandoned in the streets of Seoul -- with rickets, malnutrition -- even her finger nails had fallen off, she had lice and sores everywhere. Now she speaks English and is learning to read, write, play piano, dance ballet & ride a horse. She is also learning that people can be believed in and even loved. These are golden times and I am aware of that every single second...
George Bush had a delightful visit to Munich and Helsinki -- sumptuous three- wine dinners, an evening at the ballet, VIP tours of castles. But like other tourists, he also had his pocket picked. Bush had repeatedly vowed that at the Group of Seven summit of leading industrial democracies he would fight to batter down barriers to U.S. exports and thus create more jobs for Americans. Instead, the other six (Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan) shifted the focus away from trade and toward the civil war in what used to be Yugoslavia...
...price of liberation has been high. Life under the Soviet system may have been constricted, but it was comfortable. Staffs were huge: the Kirov is a little city of 3,000 citizens that includes the world-class ballet company, also on a U.S. tour. The occasional visiting Western choreographer or director found the system byzantine, but Gergiev takes a long view: "In Russia everything is impossible, but at the end of the day, things get done...
...Kirov -- both the opera and dance divisions -- have busily signed Western contracts. The ballet will perform The Nutcracker in Tokyo each year for the next decade. The opera, besides a major contract with Philips Records, has co-production deals going with Covent Garden and La Scala, among others. But it will not return to the U.S. until 1995: Gergiev is wisely wary of overexposure...
...interviewed some of the world's most revered cultural stars. "Vladimir Nabokov started out very formidable, asking for questions ahead of time," she recalls of a 1969 interview. "But once I traveled to Switzerland and saw him in Montreux, he was whimsical and utterly charming." In the world of ballet, a specialty of Duffy's, Peter Martins was "candid to a fault," while Mikhail Baryshnikov often offered "poetic responses" to her questions. Perhaps Duffy's secret is that she notices and records the variety in this world exceptionally well...