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Moscow in this manic farce, which, after 25 years of suppression, has again seen light in Russia and received two new translations...
...years I have been trying to figure out TIME'S absolutely manic obsession with the profusion of one's hair. Aside from your Essay, which is admittedly an observant comment on the trend of the times, 1 am informed in that same issue that David Bellinger is "balding," Jerry Rubin is "wild-haired," Judge W. Harold Cox is "white-thatched," Emperor Rosko is "lion-maned" etc. Is there some deep hidden meaning that is escaping me? Am I being psychologically brainwashed...
...high-voltage pictures in themselves. A savage chop of cross-hatching and rapid brush strokes give Van Gogh's watercolor foliage as much urgency as one done in a heavy oil impasto; the extravagantly translucent turquoise shadows of his barred window at the Saint-Remy asylum emphasize the manic oppressiveness of the room's yellow walls...
...MASTER AND MARGARITA, by Mikhail Bulgakov. Satan saunters through Moscow in this manic farce, which, after 25 years of suppression, has again seen light in Russia and received two new translations...
From this point onward, Bulgakov's novel fans out into a frenzy of manic action in which Moscow is virtually taken over by the Devil and his attendant demiurges. These take their supernatural business for granted, while, in contrast, many plain Soviet citizens are deprived of their Marxist grasp of material reality by the apparition of the Devil, and behave like lunatics. First the poet, then assorted officials, unhinged by their attempts to explain the inexplicable, wind up in the psychiatric center...