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...Voronezh, 340 miles southwest of Moscow. Before the water supply goes off at 9 -- for the next 10 hours -- Nadezhda must prepare breakfast, lunch and dinner for the family of four, wash dishes and clothes and fill four buckets for drinking. Husband Alexander rushes to clean up before daughter Larisa and son Alexei commandeer the bathroom...
Nadezhda earns 3,000 rubles styling men's hair 39 hours a week in a no- frills state shop that serves as one of the neighborhood's social centers. Larisa, 19, also a hairdresser, was unemployed for eight months but now brings home 1,500 rubles from her job; Alexei is in high school...
Clothes are a luxury. Nadezhda shares her only raincoat with Larisa. Alexander and Alexei, 16, have learned to go without anything new. The Vaktins have no telephone, so contact with friends is limited. The wooden cabinet and rickety set of armchairs in the living room, which also doubles as master bedroom, were bought 17 years ago. There will be no money to replace the furniture anytime soon. The family's only entertainment is an old Russian- manufactured TV on which Alexander watches the latest sports and Nadezhda her favorite soap opera...
Theme and Variations featured Larisa Lezhnina, 20, a richly talented Kirov prospect. But her consort, Ruzimatov, literally got in her way. Defeated by the partnering in the pas de deux, in which the woman must execute many steps while appearing to move languorously, he acted like a man caught in a turnstile. In one Montreal performance, Lezhnina was forced to retract her extended...
Playing with Axelrod are guitarist Brian Silverman '85, Larisa R. Wright '87 on the bass, drummer Scott Puopolo '85, and saxophonist Warren Hill, a student at the Berklee School of Music...