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...Absolute nonsense!" That was Rudolf Nureyev's response to the rumor that Russian Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 29, who recently defected from the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, is replacing Dame Margot Fonteyn, 51, as his partner. As for Fonteyn, the prima ballerina sounded unconcerned about the possibility of his teaming up with Makarova. "Sometimes I dance with Nureyev and sometimes I don't," she said. "I dance with other partners, and so does he. I would very much like to see them dancing together some time...
...just as well that the Zhiguli is not coming off the line in greater numbers, for Russia is still woefully unprepared for the impact of the auto. Soviet authorities frankly express their apprehensions. "By 1980, we will be struck by transport paralysis," says A. Zhukovsky, the chief of the Leningrad Transport Department. "Leningrad will have over a half million cars, while road construction is already twelve years behind present needs." Yevgeny Trubitsyn, Minister for Highway Construction of the Russian Republic, summed up: "We are just plain short of roads...
...Explorations. To assemble it, Schneider spent two years wheedling the best pictures from U.S. and European collections. He persuaded Leningrad's Hermitage Museum to lend twelve paintings seldom seen by Westerners. He got eight-even less familiar -from Moscow's Pushkin Museum. Rarest of all, he has teased out of several French private collections a score of paintings that have never before been publicly exhibited...
...Luxe was pivotal. It was his first picture of monumental size and the up-rearing early pier of the great bridge of painting that culminated within three years in those extraordinary canvases, Music and the two versions of Dance. Brilliantly, Schneider has hung the three huge paintings, two from Leningrad's Hermitage and the first version of Dance from New York's Museum of Modern Art, in the same hall. There the two rings of dancers confront each other in demonic energy, while between them, on the saturated flat green of the grass, under the deep blue...
...sociologists based their recommendations on a survey of 620 young men and women in Leningrad. Their findings showed that younger Soviet citizens are considerably more relaxed about sex than the older generation. For example, among students 53% of the males and 38% of the females said that they condoned premarital sex. Attitudes were even more liberal among young graduates who were already earning their own living: 81% of the women felt that premarital relations were in order-as long as the girl was in love...