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...ROMANTIC VISION OF CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE U.S.S.R., the Art Institute of Chicago. The flood of treasures from Russian collections continues, here with a trove of haunting, otherworldly works by the great German mystic Friedrich (1774-1840), loaned by the Hermitage and Pushkin museums. Through...
...come the practical things in life. As soon as he has learned to drive, Kissin plans to get a car. A girlfriend may take longer; currently he travels with his mother and his teacher. Relaxation takes the form of playing the rags of Scott Joplin and reading Pushkin and Tolstoy. He rejects the notion that he is still too young to understand the depths of his art. "For me, it's natural," he says. "Please don't take this as being immodest, but with my potential, I could have already done more than I have." Given that the history...
...What's in my name to you? It will wither out, like a sad sound." That line from Pushkin might describe how some members of the legislature of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics feel about . . . well, about the name Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Supreme Soviet is debating whether the country ought to get a new name once the proposed treaty of confederation among the 15 constituent republics of the U.S.S.R. is approved. Three suggestions: Union of Sovereign Socialist States (U.S.S.S.), put forth by none other than Mikhail Gorbachev; Union of Euro-Asian Republics, a coinage...
...romantic lines of my youth," sighs a middle-aged Moscow housewife. "We would line up at Sokolniki Park to see the first American exhibition, where Khrushchev debated Nixon. Or at the Pushkin Museum to see paintings by Fernand Leger. What wonderful times we had! Not like in these horrible lines today...
...trendiest queue these days is the one outside McDonald's in Pushkin Square. The three-hour wait for a glimpse of life abroad -- which is more precious than the Big Macs themselves -- has supplanted such cultural diversions as visiting the Bolshoi, which is usually either closed or touring abroad anyway. On a recent Sunday, a troupe of young actors staged a skit for waiting patrons in the McDonald's line. Thus the performers were fulfilling the oft-stated but little-realized communist goal of bringing culture to the masses by going to where the masses can always be found...