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Communist jargon and classical music are the usual radio diet of the Soviet citizen. But during five years of U.S.-Soviet detente, listeners in the Soviet Union had a simple alternative. A flick of the dial pulled in Western news, commentary-and even the throbbing beat of hard rock music. Moscow's decision in June 1963 to abandon jamming Western programs was an indication of the U.S.S.R.'s interest in a rapprochement with the Western world. Now the jamming is on again...
Masked Innocence. His imagination takes another turn with Burning House. Topped by a Dairy Queen turret, it stands on spindle legs like a kind of stylized cockerel. A .mirrored slot is its front door, a bell tolls the alarm from its innards, and brass flames flick from its windows. A viewer can peer past them to discover a drawing of a grotesque dragon and miniature ladders leading to invisible upper rooms from which there is obviously no escape. What does it mean? "I have no idea," says Westermann. "I cam build a thing, but I can't nail down...
...shaping his forms, Segal is preoccupied with what he calls "gesture." He does not mean the wave of a hand or the flick of a wrist, but rather the whole attitude of the body. Says he: "You have to know the gesture you want, and then there's always the question of whether the human being can hold that gesture for the 20 minutes it takes the plaster to dry." The result is that artificial postures disappear, and his models slump into poses that are brutally natural. "People have attitudes locked up in their bodies, and you have...
...FIREMEN'S BALL is a flick about nothing very much. It is about a firemen's ball in a Czech village, and during the ball there is a beauty contest and a raffle and a fire. But nothing happens: an oversized peasant granny wins the beauty contest crown, no one wins the raffle, and no one is hurt in the fire. But you won't be disappointed by the eventlessness of this film...
Thursday nights, after a Lowell House dinner, I wander back slowly to my room, thinking deeply--not necessarily about football. At 6:30, I flick on the philosopher-king and his disciple, Eric...