Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BORN. To Natalia Makarova, 37, Russian ballerina who defected to the West in 1970, and Edward Karkar, 45, an electronics manufacturer: a son, their first child; in San Francisco. Name: Andre Michel...
...serious." The music of Beethoven, Schumann and Berlioz, he told Tchaikovsky, has "an artificial style-striving for the unexpected." The critic was Count Leo Tolstoy, and these and other remarks appear in two volumes of Tolstoy's Letters (Scribners; $35), the first comprehensive translation into English of the Russian writer's prolific correspondence. In notes to friends and fellow authors like I.S. Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, H.G. Wells and Rainer Maria Rilke, Tolstoy also takes a hard look at his own work. War and Peace, he concedes, is in some parts "long-winded and inaccurate...
...embroidery, and from Courrèges, a skirt and blouse combination laden with ruffles. For most of high fashion's critics, clients, and trend watchers, the week's main feature was the Saint Laurent collection. Paris' No. 1 designer, who launched the costume revolution with his Russian, gypsy, Cossack fashions of 1976, had presaged a return to modernity with his ready-to-wear show last October. "There is no more revolution," observed Madame Ida, the maestro's longtime aide. "This is evolution...
Most of the exteriors were shot in Hungary, and the streets of old Budapest served for the Moscow and Petersburg of a century ago. The only missing ingredient, an important one, unfortunately, is a sense of Russian spaciousness, a feeling not so much of a country as of a vast sea of land...
...York, there are aging Jewish immigrants whose ideas of social justice were formed by the Russian Revolution, and whose heated arguments Gornick remembers from her own Bronx childhood. The East Side of Manhattan was politically unique to an Italian who grew up there. "The right-wingers were the New Dealers," he wrote, "and the political conjugation went on from there: Social Democrats, Socialists, Communists, Trotskyists, Anarchists...