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After the excitement dies down, the cultural exchanges--so everyone hopes--will become routine. American audiences will doubtless give standing ovations to major Soviet troupes. "The Bolshoi Ballet will sell out as long as the world turns," says Niefeld. Cognoscenti hope that future visits will also bring such top performers as Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, Saxophonist Alexei Kozlov, Mezzo-Soprano Elena Obraztsova, and even Pianist Vladimir Feltsman, whose career was halted by Soviet authorities in 1979 when he applied for permission to emigrate to Israel...
...first, anyway, Soviet audiences and museumgoers will probably be shown only the most traditional aspects of American culture, such as its major orchestras and Broadway musicals. If history is any judge, ordinary Soviets, who tend to be more conservative than their American counterparts, may not like much new American art. Until lately, in fact, few Soviets considered abstract art to be art at all. One of the exhibits Soviet officials have approved, interestingly, is a selection from three generations of the Wyeth family, whose work is solid and representational...
...think we can resolve all our differences through cultural exchanges," says Yevtushenko, "but we can create a special atmosphere of trust. And this will make it easier to sign political and nuclear agreements." If that is perhaps too hopeful, the pleasure and enrichment for American and Soviet audiences is enough in itself. And the exchanges should help to make the two superpowers less disagreeable when they choose to disagree. --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York and William Stewart/Washington...
...extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls, "I lost the sense of Jewish identity. My family's history, my people's history receded. I was preoccupied with my own life, my own affairs." He became a successful painter, an occasional novelist and human rights activist...
...Soviet sub carrying nuclear missiles and powered by two reactors sinks after an explosion but releases no measurable radiation...