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Later in the program he was onstage alone in Vestris, a ballet created for him by Leningrad's Leonid Jacobson in 1969. The subject of this seven-minute solo is Auguste Vestris, a famous 18th century dancer and mime. In a powdered wig and white satin tunic, Baryshnikov went through a kaleidoscope of quicksilver impressions - an old man dancing a minuet, a woman praying, a girl flirting. It was funny. It was sad. Then it was funny again. It was acting of the highest order...
...Xanadu, once upon a memory, Kubla Khan did a stately pleasure-dome decree. Some centuries later, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia set out to fill a comparable palace in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) with Europe's finest paintings and artifacts. The result is now called the State Hermitage Museum, and it has one of the world's best and most encyclopedic collections, though it is also cluttered with much second-rate stuff. The Soviets have been reluctant to lend their treasures. Two years ago, Art Collector Armand Hammer, who is also chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp...
With the Russians, nothing comes without its price. In this case, the price was the inclusion of 13 Russian paintings from Leningrad's State Russian Museum. They are something of a revelation. Alexander Ivanov's Water and Rocks Near Palazzuola, painted in the early 1850s, is a strongly constructed landscape that Courbet could have admired...
...heart ailment, dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov remained in bed. "My doctor has ordered no excitement," he explained. Elizabeth Taylor and other members of the cast of The Blue Bird, the first joint Soviet-American film production, were too busy to take time off from their filming in Leningrad to watch the liftoff. Instead, they sent a fatuous message to the spacemen: "If you meet in space our small bluebird of happiness, please take it with you and return it to earth...
...Soviet elite is enjoying the biggest slice of the steady growth in national wealth. "There's more pie and more fat flies to share it," notes a Leningrad sociologist. On the woody outskirts of Moscow, the birch-shaded grounds of Khrushchev's old dacha at Petrovo-Dalneye are being torn up to make room for rows of mini-dachas, which look like motel cabins, for middle-rung apparatchiks. The system of special stores for top people, stocked with Western goods and local caviar, is expanding...