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...BOTTOM LINE: The Russian-born virtuoso bares his German soul in a dazzling, radical interpretation...
THERE IS A DEEPLY MYSTICAL SIDE to Vladimir Feltsman. It has to do with suffering and spiritual reunification -- what Tolstoy called "resurrection." But the Russian-born pianist refuses to talk about all this. He lets his music do the talking in the unfolding of these remarkable Goldberg Variations, from the first tender, probing notes of the aria, through successive layers of joy, exuberance, introspection and turbulence, and finally back to the whispered serenity of the aria. In between, as Feltsman might say, lies infinity...
...actors became detectives too. "It's like being a journalist," Oldman said of his research into Oswald's character. "We all became assassination buffs. Marina ((Oswald's Russian-born widow)) had a tape that she let me see. It had a section leading up to the line, 'I'm just a patsy.' Oliver saw it, and he said, 'Let's restage that scene.' " Spacek spent time with Garrison's ex-wife Liz. "The sense I got from her," the actress says, "is of a woman living the life she wanted to live until her husband's obsession came through...
...Soviet Union, who see life in West Berlin and the Federal Republic as a vast improvement over their previous existence. Many are baffled that anyone should think their presence worthy of comment. "Living as a Jew in Germany is , just like living in America," says Alex Kozulin, 31, a Russian-born pianist who came to West Berlin via Israel twelve years ago. "I don't feel I have any enemies." Heiner Ulmer, 40, the son of Polish concentration-camp survivors who settled in Bamberg after the war, is more emphatic. Says the high school teacher: "I'm a German...
What is fuzzy logic? The original concept, developed in the mid-'60s by Lofti Zadeh, a Russian-born professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is that things in the real world do not fall into the neat, crisp categories defined by traditional set theory, like the set of even numbers or the set of left-handed baseball players. In standard Aristotelian logic, as in computer science, membership in a class or set is not a matter of degree. Either a number is even, or it is not. But this on-or-off, black-or- white...