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...like to be pegged,” Brown said. “I don’t like to be told who I am.”As part of the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lectures Series, Brown spoke about art and dance with Richard Colton, a local dance instructor. What could have been a structured interview became an intimate discussion concerning her movement, her aesthetic theory, and her career. “You never have enough opportunity to hear artists talk. They interview more athletes,” lamented audience member Martha Armstrong Gray, Dance Director...
...Yeltsin: A Life, Timothy J. Colton has written a fine biography of Russia's first postcommunist President. He has done his homework, going to the Urals, for example, to talk to individuals who knew Yeltsin in his poverty-stricken childhood. One finding: a grandfather of Yeltsin's was persecuted as a rich peasant when Stalin imposed agricultural collectivization. Colton also spoke to acquaintances from Yeltsin's period as Communist Party boss in Sverdlovsk. He justifiably concludes that Yeltsin was already a rambunctious politician before Gorbachev promoted him to head the Moscow City Party in 1985. Yeltsin was like a bull...
...Colton, Yeltsin was a man with a matchless capacity to reinvent himself, and an almost superhuman resilience that enabled him to see off his enemies. He felt uncomfortable with any fixed ideological position, relying instead on intuition. Critics put it about that he lacked intellectual inquisitiveness; in fact, he made a constant effort to refresh his thinking and was no ignoramus. He particularly liked Chekhov's short stories. When not bingeing on vodka, he was a bit of a puritan in social relations. He abhorred unpunctuality: his favorite gift to anyone was a wristwatch. Aides who made lewd comments quickly...
...Colton's account sticks closely to the biographical mode and largely avoids big, historical controversies. Sometimes, perhaps, he underplays the man's animal exuberance. Yeltsin, after all, played the spoons on the heads of his ministers - hardly the behavior of an average statesman. But Colton's research is thorough and his chronicle lively and measured. It's fitting, too, that Yeltsin has sprung his last surprise by finding a biographer to rank him, justifiably, among the politicians with the greatest impact on the 20th century...
...Personally, I do expect it,” Colton said. “But in the end that’s up to the students. They get to choose at this level, and all we can do is present the best possible product, and in the end it’s up to them to decide...