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...recovery was a new twist in a particularly sensitive diplomatic stalemate. The Siberian Seven-Vashchenko, four family members and two friends-have lived in a 12-ft. by 20-ft. room in the basement of the U.S. embassy in Moscow since they crashed past embassy guards in 1978. They had hoped, vainly, that U.S. diplomats could arrange their departure from the Soviet Union, where they have suffered persecution for their Pentecostal beliefs. On Christmas Day, Vashchenko's mother Augustina began a hunger strike, and Lidiya joined three days later. As her health deteriorated, embassy officials decided to have...
...inspired the cartoon image of Uncle Sam, peddled a brand of entertainment which--as the show gradually reveals--was virtually extinct by the time of Appomattox. In his heyday--set forth in the show's early vignettes--Rice would cavort while telling his audiences morality stories (each with a twist), browbeat them with "verbatim" scenes from Hamlet and Othello and frequently harangue them about politics. With a freewheeling didacticism few audiences today would gravitate to for entertainment, he lengthily described the benefits he had gained in youth by regularly "fertilizing" himself in a barrel of horse manure, and he generously...
LIKE A DISEASE out of remission, the Vietnam malignancy returned to television screens last Saturday, as dangerous and insidious as ever. The story was a new twist on an old tale--how American public officials lied to each other and to the public over the course of the long war. Specifically, a CBS documentary ("The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception") showed how the U.S. military successfully strove to "supress and alter" estimates of Communist forces in Vietnam before the January 1968 Tet offensive...
...1950s, was Peter Voulkos, now 57; a group of his pieces from those years begins the show. They record his decision-and it cannot have been an easy one 25 years ago-to apply the latent violence of abstract expressionist paint handling to the solid medium of clay: to twist, punch and slash the continuous form one expects of a pot's surface, opening it up to create the visible inner spaces that belong to sculpture. Compared with the best abstract expressionist Voulkos' sculpture (David Smith's, say), somewhat clumsy and overworked, but its impact...
From Sheriff Matt Dillon on radio to Private Eye Frank Cannon on TV, Actor William Conrad, 61, has specialized in meting out justice. In his latest role, he is still enforcing the law, but with an Oriental twist. Taking on the title role in a new TV production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, the portly Conrad will insist in his amateur baritone that the punishment fit the crime. "He's a great big cuddly granddad-Santa Claus with a lovely voice," says Singer Kate Flowers, 29, who plays the heroine Yum-Yum in the musical, which...