Word: ogorodnikov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critical realism, the style of most glasnost films, eschews the bold editing effects and pristine iconography of the Soviet silents. But style is subordinate to message just now: the priority is journalism, not art. To U.S. eyes, the rebels without a cause in an alienated-teen drama like Valeri Ogorodnikov's The Burglar are a sight as nostalgic as Hula-Hoops. But in the U.S.S.R. these films play like bulletins from the front lines. So for audiences at home and abroad, the excitement of Soviet movies is not so much in their quality as in their very existence...
...instituted by Stalin in 1929 even forbid charitable work, although bit by bit some Christians are being allowed to help at clinics, mental hospitals and homes for the aged. There is no word as yet on the fate of the long-promised revision of Stalin's laws. Cautions Alexander Ogorodnikov, an ex-prisoner and lay activist who ran a seminar on past persecution last week: "A positive tone can easily become negative again after the celebrations. What counts is what is written in law." A member of the Vatican retinue also warned, "There is no evidence that this process...
Need and greed also figured prominently in the sixth week of the Los Angeles espionage trial of Svetlana Ogorodnikov, 35, and her husband Nikolay, 52. Richard W. Miller, 48, the first FBI agent ever accused of espionage, admitted to having been sexually involved with Svetlana but denied on the witness stand that serious financial straits moved him to pass on classified information to the Russian emigres. Miller admitted that he bounced checks, cheated his wife's uncle on a business deal, pocketed a $113 Social Security check from his wife's grandmother, sold FBI information to a private investigator...
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