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Currently playing a limited run off-off-Broadway (other productions are slated for Baltimore, Pittsburgh and elsewhere), Slavs! is a series of sketches held together mostly by its cross-pollinating cast of eccentrics. They include the passionate Politburo member identified as the World's Oldest Living Bolshevik (first seen in Angels), the ferociously bored lesbian (Marisa Tomei, in a sly, engaging performance) who guards the aforementioned brains, and an eight-year-old girl whose grandparents were exposed to radiation and passed down to her a genetic flaw that has rendered her mute...
...case we shouldn't be surprised that brigandage is on the rise, when we consider that exactly 1/7 of the Gorkom (or Politburo, or Central Committee-City Council seems such an inaccurate description of a body that systematically appropriates privately owned housing stock); that 1/7 which actually constitutes far more that 1/7 of the seniority, mass and volume o the Council, is none other than William Walsh...
...show has been seen in America before. The very notion of an American museum asking for Stalinist paintings seems so weird that any interest in them is bound to seem morbid. To look at, say, Vasili Svarog's ebullient 1939 painting of Stalin and the jolly butchers of the Politburo frolicking with smiling children in Gorky Park is like hearing a particularly ghastly fairy tale told from the point of view of the ogre...
...editor of Pravda but had no role in planning the October Revolution) being painted into the very heart of the first Bolshevik conclaves cheek by jowl with Lenin. One sees Stalin protecting the motherland from the Kremlin ramparts, towering over generals or members of the Politburo who in biological life were considerably taller than he. There he is conducting the defense of Stalingrad (though in fact he prudently avoided going anywhere near a battle), encouraging collective farmers and listening to Maxim Gorky read...
...that Beijing too is irritated, specifically with what hard-liners in the regime consider blackmail, interference and pressure from the West. Amid intensified maneuvering to succeed ailing senior leader Deng Xiaoping, the conservatives have gained influence in the top echelons of government. Last May, President Jiang Zemin told the Politburo, in reference to U.S. human- rights pressures, that "we will not yield to hegemonism and power politics. For the motherland's sovereignty, independence and dignity, we are ready to pay a price." At the same time, uncertainty about the succession has begun to paralyze the Chinese bureaucracy...