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...this sweetly silly show. As the lights dim, his reedy voice is heard intoning the title tune. At the curtain, after a pleasure cruise through the likes of You're the Top, Friendship and It's Delovely (the latter two lifted from other Porter shows), a giant lighted-up portrait of the composer-lyricist, who died in 1964, descends to smile benevolently...
Winston Churchill called Russia "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This week's cover story looks inside the wrapping. We have assembled an exclusive 28-page portrait of "A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union," excerpted from a forthcoming book by Rick Smolan and David Cohen, which is surely one of the most thorough attempts to capture the soul of that cryptic country...
...Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt, who contributed the accompanying ten-page essay, spent a month in the Soviet Union on the project. Contrasting his assignment with that of the photographers, he notes, "They did a day in the life. I tried to do the life." The result is a unique portrait of that giant, paradoxical, intensely human land...
...impression conveyed by these images is occasionally a touch too sunny, the Essay that follows offers different kinds of lights. Where the photographers froze a day on film, Time Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt roamed the Soviet Union for a month. He provides a portrait of a nation reaching for midday while its heart remains in shadow...
...portrait in prose of the Communist giant. Touring the Soviet republics, Essayist Roger Rosenblatt listens to the voices of ordinary people and discovers a beauty derived from a sense of life as grief. See Special Section...