Word: outcaste
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...Sharmanka gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, Bersudsky now exhibits 3-D expressions of his inner torments and the life he led as an artistic outcast after his return to Leningrad in 1961. He began carving wood and tinkering with junk and in 1967 produced his first kinetic sculpture of a barrel-organ grinder. "When he saw how it moved, he could never stop making them again," says Tatyana Jakovskaya, Bersudsky's wife, who met the artist in 1988 when he was still living in Leningrad, in a single room crammed with his sad, mad and satirical moving sculptures. Among them...
...Arctic north and an army call-up. A stammerer since childhood, Bersudsky was bullied by his colleagues, and he finally stopped speaking entirely. At the Sharmanka gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, Bersudsky now exhibits 3-D expressions of his inner torments and the life he led as an artistic outcast after his return to Leningrad in 1961. He began carving wood and tinkering with junk and in 1967 produced his first kinetic sculpture of a barrel-organ grinder. "When he saw how it moved, he could never stop making them again," says Tatyana Jakovskaya, Bersudsky's wife, who met the artist...
...once in a full moon the dream can come true. Ron Maxwell, 22, is a Citibank computer operator by day and one of the Eighth Street's performing "Brads" on weekends. Listen to this testimony of salvation: "At school I was a nerd, a dork, a social outcast. So of course I identified with Brad. Now I'm still a dork, but it's O.K. Rocky Horror says, 'You're weird, but you belong somewhere. Let's all be weird together.'" He excuses himself to go onstage opposite a comely "Janet"; they met at the Eighth Street and are engaged...
With the stigma of illegitimacy largely removed, girls are less inclined to surrender their babies for adoption. In fact, fewer than 5% do (compared with roughly 35% in the early 1960s). "In earlier times if a girl kept her child, society would treat her like an outcast," reflects Sister Bertille. "The fear and guilt are not the same as before...
...show is Baryshnikov's. He might have been embarrassed at having elements of his autobiography drossed into pulp fiction; instead he displays a muscular, ironic elegance. And when he throws himself into an improvisatorial solo to the folk strains of Outcast Singer Vladimir Vysotsky, Baryshnikov creates a tingling explosion of anger, isolation, homesickness and ferocity. Any viewer not wiped out by this dance is hereby excused from the human race. For all its superpower simplifications, White Nights has discovered in Baryshnikov a keen and passionate movie hero. Giggle at the film's naiveté; then feast on Misha and dance down...