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...trying to curb crime by beefing up voluntary public-order squads and increasing the severity of punishment. But like its Western counterparts, the U.S.S.R. appears at a loss to slow its burgeoning incidence of crime, as at least one Westerner found out last week. On a sightseeing excursion to Leningrad, a salesman from Krimtekhnika-74 draped his jacket over a chair in a hotel bar and got up to dance. When he returned a few minutes later, the jacket -and about $850-had been stolen...
That may well be true for most Soviet women if the author, Leningrad Sexologist Abram Svyadoshch, is right. In dry technical language (the book was intended as a guide for doctors treating sex problems), Svyadoshch contends that Russian women achieve greater sexual satisfaction than their sisters in the West. After an analysis of reports from six experimental sex clinics in the U.S.S.R. and foreign surveys, he concludes that only 18% of Russian women suffer from nyet orgazm, compared with 40% of French and 41% of English women. Moreover, he finds that 16% of Russian women have an orgasm during every...
...desperate Prince trying to dance all night before the cruel Queen of the Willis and save his soul. When the curtain finally came down on the American Ballet Theater's production of Giselle last week, the Manhattan audience threw flowers at the latest runaway genius from Leningrad's Kirov Ballet. For 25 semihysterical minutes, Baryshnikov and his partner, Natalya Makarova, who defected from the Kirov herself four years ago, were dragged back again and again for curtain calls...
Baryshnikov has repeatedly asserted that if the Kirov had allowed him to dance for extended periods outside Russia, or if the Soviet Union had invited foreign choreographers to Leningrad, he would not have defected. His decision to leave, he told TIME, "was not political. Everybody knows the very interesting choreography is in the United States." He wants to do modern ballets-by Martha Graham, Balanchine, Robbins, MacMillan. "It's difficult not to be at home," he admits. "You have a choice between art and personal well-being...
...pianist. But his mother enrolled him at twelve in the Latvian Opera Ballet school. "I didn't take it very seriously," he recalls. "Then I really bit into the forbidden fruit and I couldn't tear myself away." From Riga he went to Leningrad, where, like Nureyev, he studied with Ballet Master Alexander Pushkin. At 18, Baryshnikov joined the Kirov as a soloist...