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Public outcry is as uncommon in Russia as borsch without sour cream, but something very much like it has been triggered by last month's sentencing of four young intellectuals to terms in labor camps. Soviet writers, scientists and university teachers, who once quaked in fear of the Kremlin's displeasure, have drawn up petitions, loudly condemned the sentences and fired off a spate of letters not only to Russia's newspapers but to the Soviet Supreme Court, the Politburo and several other government agencies. In an unusually bold campaign, they have accused the Russian press...
...1930s and 1940s (My Man Godfrey, Destry Rides Again), the orphaned son of a czarist naval officer, who at one point during the Bolshevik revolution roamed Russia with a pack of parentless children before a grandfather brought him to the U.S., eventually made his way to Hollywood, where his borsch-and-sour-cream accent and rolling-eyed comedy won him fame; of a heart attack; in Rome...
...easy chair, and one by one the students play a solo. Now the old cellist closes his mournful eyes in repose, now he nods his head enthusiastically, now lurches forward to demonstrate a point on his cello. He saws the air with an imaginary bow, sings in his rumbling borsch-accented voice: "Dom dom pah pah dom." Scowling, smiling, grimacing, clenching his fists and waving his arms, he peppers his students with encouragement...
...songs are by Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, who blithely dissolves ideological conflicts in a burst of tuneful Slavic borsch. Occasionally the Magicolor screen becomes a hotbed of artistic freethinking, dissolving into sets that look very MGMsky, if not downright cubistic. The costumes are a Sears, Roebuck fashion show...
Died. Arthur Winarick, 75, who converted a 20-room Catskills boardinghouse into what is now the 1,500-room Concord Hotel, the Borsch Belt's biggest beat, offering pink, yellow or blue snow on the winter ski slopes, 45 golf holes in the summer, and romantic matchmaking all year round; of a heart attack; in Kiamesha Lake...