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...great classics of dance-Swan Lake, for example, or Giselle-as if they were museum pieces on the move, as many of them are. The Russians' excessive awe of tradition can be a hindrance when it comes to creating new choreography. A striking case in point is Yuri Grigorovich's Ivan the Terrible, which was given its American premiere at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week by a large touring company of the Bolshoi. Grigorovich is probably the Soviet Union's finest classical choreographer, and the two-act ballet is his first original work...
...Anastasia, Natalia Bessmertnova-one of the most lyrical ballerinas in the world-has little to do but flutter her graceful arms and look demure. The only multidimensional character is Ivan, a role danced at the premiere by Yuri Vladimirov. An extraordinarily lithe actor with a frazzled mane and long simian arms, Vladimirov in his mad scenes looked oddly like a bemused orangutan who had suddenly been set loose from a zoo. That effect was heightened in the ballet's unintentionally ludicrous climax, when the paranoid Czar, hopelessly entangled among bell ropes, dangles above a crowd of foot-stomping peasants...
...speakers included Gov. Francis W. Sargent, his opponent for re-election, Democratic candidate Michael S. Dukakis, Boston College professor Yuri Glazov, a recent immigrant from the Soviet Union and Shimson Inbal, Consul-General of Israel in Boston...
...take the guise of local political movements. Moreover, Communist dictatorships without inquisitive legislatures or press can organize and finance secret operations in other countries in a way that no open society can. Unlike American leaders, Communist leaders never acknowledge such activities. The Soviet Union's KGB, headed by Yuri Andropov, regularly runs what the Russian bureaucrats call aktivniye meropriyatiye (literal translation: active measures). The KGB's budget is unknown, but it has about 300,000 employees, many of them assigned to domestic duties like operating the vast network of prison camps. Overseas, a majority of the Soviet embassy personnel...
After failing at least three times in attempts to complete a Skylab-type orbital mission, the Russians were not about to take any unnecessary risks in their latest effort. As Cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin, both 44, whirled around the earth aboard their Salyut 3 space station, ground control sternly refused to let them listen to the semifinal match between Poland and Brazil in the World Cup championship. The excitement, the controllers feared, might stir up the cosmonauts' pulse beats and blood pressure. But after a while, Soccer Nut Popovich could bear the suspense no longer. "How did they...