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...their membership in the Young Pioneers, a group which is the first step on the road to becoming a Party member. "All Russian kids were Pioneers," he recalls. "It was a disgrace to have your scarf taken away when you misbehaved." Schecter, who was unable to wear the symbolic scarlet scarf as an American, said that this did not alienate him from his friends...
...Scarlet Pimpernel, Friday and Saturday...
With Desire, Dylan seems to be reaching out for a new audience; of his last three albums, it is easily the most listenable. Robbie Robertson's eerie guitar riffs on Planet Waves have been replaced by Scarlet Rivera's soothing, melodic violin line. Planet Waves was a depressing album--even Wedding Song which was cited by Newsweek as evidence of Dylan's new "mellowness" contained disturbing lines about love which "cut like a knife," about loving someone "more than madness." Blood on the Tracks was a transition, containing some of the bitterness of Planet Waves, but, particularly with Lily, Rosemary...
...have always wanted to do the Scarlet Letter because it is an interesting piece of Americana," explained Modern Dance Choreographer Martha Graham, 81, as she introduced her interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel last week to an appreciative New York audience. While Graham Protegee Janet Eilber danced the part of Adulteress Hester Prynne in the classic Puritan story, the role of the Rev. Dimmesdale went to celebrated Russian Expatriate Rudolf Nureyev. "I see no irony in using a Russian to dance the lead in this very American story," insisted la grande Graham. "I choose dancers, not nationalists...
Unfortunately, the accusers and the accused in Special Section are brothers under the skin: every one of them, regardless of political persuasion, is a resounding stereotype. There are no real characters, only cameos enacted by a large cast of mostly unfamiliar actors. The judges are straw men in scarlet robes, passing out death sentences like souvenir fountain pens. Their victims are a rag-tag gallery of the common man meant to embody some evergreen liberal shibboleths: the fiery left-wing journalist; the good-humored, faintly ironic petty crook; the humble shopkeeper...