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...Smithereens, made for $100,000, is a cautionary tale of the Manhattan punk milieu in the tradition of such '60s films as Shadows and The Connection. Its 19-year-old heroine, Wren (Susan Berman), has seen it all, done most of it, learned nothing. Outfitted in punk khaki - checker-rimmed dark glasses, red sneakers, ornamental bruise on her arm - Wren crashes the Peppermint Lounge and puts the make on new wave musicians, who pay about as much attention to her as they would to the framed landscape on a motel-room wall. This Piaf-size waif has big, gaudy...
...down Andropov's collection of books and records, which run to Jacqueline Susann and Chubby Checker, as one of poor taste is symptomatic of the blindness that characterizes our Soviet watching. The items that Andropov has acquired provide an answer to the question: What do Americans read and listen to? From the Soviets' perspective, the masses are the heart and soul of a nation. It is a crucial question for them to ask. Our answer, as reflected by the Andropov collection, is regrettable. David Ish San Francisco
...Andropov offers impediments to this effort because the little humanizing aspects of his life do not form an immediately recognizable or coordinated whole. There is, for example, his alleged preference for gypsy music, Chubby Checker and Glenn Miller. While these things are not antipodal, it is hard to envisage Mr. Andropov among friends singing gypsy tunes, as he is said to do, in a "pleasant light tenor," then switching abruptly to The Twist or Pennsylvania 6-5000. Still, the image is peppy. The question of interior decoration has come up as well. In one account Mr. Andropov's home...
...early to guess if Mr. Andropov will ever qualify to sing with such a group, pleasant light tenor or no pleasant light tenor. He would probably add Little Things Mean a Lot, neither a Chubby Checker nor a Glenn Miller hit, but a fitting theme song for a man whose life is being appraised from small angles. Alas, as the world unhappily discovers, little things do not always mean as much as the bigger ones, especially when one of the big things is the Soviet Union. But not to worry. For the moment it is enough to relish the portrait...
Sakharov was amazed at Andropov's collection of books and records, which showed "a strange attraction for Western culture," and not necessarily for the best it has to offer. In literature, his taste ran to Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, and in music, to Chubby Checker, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee and Bob Eberly...