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Though the film's show-biz types remain ineffectual to the end, Mikhalkov refuses to poke fun at them. More often he is touched by their plight-especially that of Olga, the movie troupe's star actress. Olga barrels through real-life matters of love, death and conscience in the same florid manner as in her on-screen roles, yet she is more tragic than foolish. As played by Yelena Solovey, an actress of impressive range, this heroine's helpless indecisiveness sometimes achieves Chekhovian dimensions...
...Radcliffe Lesbians opened the first Ivy League and Seven Sisters Lesbian Conference in the Science Center last night with a poetry reading by Olga Broumas, 1977 winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award and author of "Beginning With O," a collection of poems on lesbianism...
...CAPTIVE OF TIME by Olga Ivinskaya Translated by Max Hayward Doubleday; 462 pages...
When Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya fell in love in 1946, Stalin was preparing his second assault against the Russian intelligentsia. Ivinskaya became the beleaguered poet's lifeline. By his own account, she was the inspiration for Lara in his novel Doctor Zhivago. She was his typist, his collaborator on translations and his business manager. While the unworldly poet remained on the sidelines, he delegated her to deal with hostile Soviet bureaucrats and, later, with the foreign publishers of his Nobel-prizewinning novel, banned in the U.S.S.R...
...before he began having to fight his age. By contrast, Willie Mays went on until he was 42 and found himself stumbling around under fly balls for the New York Mets. There is a natural season, a range of ages, for athletes in most sports. Russia's Olga Korbut, a gold medal gymnast in 1972 at the age of 17, appeared sadly middle-aged four years later. Rumania's Nadia Comaneci, whose gymnastic performance at the 1976 Olympics received perfect scores, seemed almost hefty a year later. Swimmers age more quickly than moths...