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TITLE: LENIN'S TOMB: THE LAST DAYS OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE...
...efforts resulted in superb reporting, first for his newspaper and now at greater length in Lenin's Tomb. His book provides both an intellectual history of the fall of the U.S.S.R. and a travelogue through its terminal illnesses, from corruption in the Kremlin to the deadly pollution of the Urals and the haunted desolation of Kolyma, center of the Siberian gulags. The book's powerful sense of place and its clarity about events that confused many of the participants will shame those who dismiss books written by reporters as "mere journalism...
CINEMA Made in America is a deft comedy. MUSIC Chris Isaak is again steeped in cowboy blues. TELEVISION Two men dying of AIDS film a searing account of their last days. BOOKS Lenin's Tomb is a superb account of the fall of the U.S.S.R. THEATER Later Life shows A.R. Gurney at his wistful best...
Audiences around the world gawk at the production's snazz and scope: / lightning bolts, trapdoors, a musician's tomb that is bigger than Grant's. They bathe in the show's warm melody and soap-opera suds. They thrill when Christine kisses the unmasked Phantom and, by this display of courage and tenderness, wins her freedom from his spell. "There's something about the title and the mystique surrounding the show," says Cameron Mackintosh, producer of Phantom as well as Cats, Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, "that makes people desperate to see it -- not once, but many dozen times...
...Schnackenberg moves effortlessly through what she calls "a gilded lapse of time," the symbiotic relationship between history and poetry becomes more apparent. Describing a picture of the prophet Isaiah in Dante's tomb, Schnackenberg writes, "He gazes down from the heights of his poetry...as if his poetry had not drive/ Jesus along the muddy path...