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...withdraws its aid to the army...

...When her boss, an ex-lover, pressures her for sex and claims Lyubov Kunakova danced the Odette/Odile of "Swan that they once had something (in the vernacular) "kinda speLake" with a similar steely determination partnered by a less cial," she corrects him with, "and kinda sleazy and kinda than top rank Siegfried, Evgeny Neff...

...Aside THE KIROV STILL SHINES from the level of American credibility already invested in the regime, a victory for forces (which at their best are roughly equivalent to those presently ruling Vietnam) would be bad for I N 1964 when Leningrad's Kirov Ballet last visited the El Salvador, bad for the U.S., and bad for Central America...

...The natural direction, of a military- Kirov...

...Perkins has the newcomers in the company, but none was seen in featured harder, killjoy role, but wins more sympathy...

...In About Last Night, company by virtue of the numbers of performances and lead- Lowe plays a young businessman reluctant to commit himself ing roles she is assigned, but her style is jarringly at odds with to Moore, an advertising assistant who finds herself, despite the lyrical "singing" line one associates with the Kirov...

...The conflict of commitment and sexual depending on what the Kirov directors chose to present by way freedom is explored, if not profoundly, at least intelligently...

...We must allow a real opportu- Moscow...

...The entrance of the twenty-eight members of voice and sultry all-American looks with (kinda) brains...

...I have become my ballet provided an undercurrent of security to the thin ranks of mother...

...summit meeting between the U.S...

...Both had been trained at the Perm school which had dominated regime is a slide to the right, which reduces gov- been established by Kirov teachers when the company was ernment support...

...More annoying is the film's longwindedness (it's easily developed gesture, but the Kirov will survive them as it has half an hour too long), obligatory rock music, predictable fight survived forced transfers, defections, suicide, and Moscow's on New Year's Eve, and silly scenes of Lowe roaming rainy envy...

...Like Debra Winger, Moore complements a husky the principals...

...They even fight favored position in the company, this approach has effected well, rarer yet when most screen blow-ups seem contrived...

...A fuss The company had originally agreed to appear only in Van- was made about the change in title, with some ascribing couver as part of Canada's International Exposition...

...Sysnecessarily difficult changes...

...A 15 August 1986: 435...

...The effect of "liberalization" in the cities is to allow an expression of attitudes to the left of those the U.S...

...It is an appealing shortcut, but a fatal one...

...The it to the studio's fear about placing ads and gathering publicity...

...We National and international ballet competitions in the Soviet need to support a domestic force for peace in El Salvador, and Union are held in Moscow...

...They both manage to is a hard, tough attack, one which takes a role by storm rather project genuine amorous "chemistry," a rare commodity in than winning it with a more subtle approach...

...She is currently the leading dancer of the merely exploited their fashionable looks...

...The two programs given in the United States consisted of the full-length "Swan Lake" and exerpts from "La Bayadere," ABOUT LAST NIGHT is a love story, loosely based on David "Paquita," and Fokine's moodily romantic "Les Sylphides...

...I would they function best: social wars and weaponry...

...T HE present situation in El Salvador limits American op- RED SHOES tions...

...Later, reflecting on a Thanksgiving dinner she cooks to -mixed bill and the full-length "Swan Lake," the corps de please Lowe, she laments, "It's official...

...A special irony is that Chenichikova's natal city is price of our continued support...

...We cannot abruptly withdraw our support...

...Perpetual opinion of the Sandinistas is known to readers of this war for perpetual peace" increases rather than reduces Soviet magazine, has suggested that "in power, the FMLN might influence, because it confronts the Soviets in the arenas where make the Sandinistas seem like Swedish Socialists...

...Liberalization permits finalists, Nadezda Pavlova (gold medal) was assigned to the' rising left-wing opposition, which, denied political space, will Bolshoi and Olga Chenichikova (silver) ended up with the find military space...

...It is spectacular, but quietly so, and also to sabotage them and preserve less complicated friendships...

...is now prized more than the glow of softer phrasing...

...But the Reagan administration, wedded to a has no parallel in Sandihista behavior...

...The "capitalist" (in many ways pre-capitalist) ports a hanged man": by pushing him to carry out unpopular economy in El Salvador that exists today is the result of right-wing economic policies, limiting his ability to control the generations of savage repression...

...serious negotiations with the rebels...

...Neither nothing so much as to imitate them...

...The hastily arranged tour included Los outline of his story about young singles on the prowl...

...The essential Kirov is still intact no matter what the Like his late brother, Belushi can play a vulgarian with both a idiosyncracies of the principals...

...Since she has a some big-name romances in recent films...

...strange admiration of their alleged Communist foes, wants This is not to say that negotiations serve no purpose...

...It is still a good company but support for the government, because that decreases both the circumstance and design have eroded its position...

...As the government's real domestic strength and its room to maneuver inheritor and standard-bearer of the traditions of the Imperial with flexibility...

...The United States under Reagan, here and elsewhere, is As for the revolutionaries, Edward Sheehan, whose low seeking victory when it should be seeking peace...

...The Commonweal: 434 tragic self-inflicted death of Yuri Soloviev during this period further depleted the ranks of the principal dancers...

...of featured artists...

...The ensemble Belushi, and Moore's man-hating roommate, Elizabeth Perfeeling was strong, placement secure, and positions taken with kins...

...In Philadelphia where I saw the company, The leads are played by Rob Lowe and Demi (rhymes with Galina Mezentseva danced the lead in "The Shades" act of "the-me" generation) Moore, whose previous roles have "La Bayadere...

...changes in other leading dancers so that mechanical brilliance Moore, in particular, displays good timing and delivery...

...and USSR produced a In truth, the new title fits a new creation, which borrows climate in which the Kirov's visit could be expanded to include Mamet's characters, his keen ear for spoken English, and the the United States...

...Trenton was given a single matinee nise DeClue and Tom Kazurinsky) and director's (Ed Zwick) which was meager, but more than major cities like New York healthy dissent from the predictable pessimism that is by now a and Chicago, which didn't have a suitably-sized theater avail- literary convention...

...Lifting that repression will army (most of our military aid goes directly to the armed forces probably not produce a result satisfactory either to political rather than through civilian government), and opposing any conservatives at home or even to moderate Democrats...

...Among the most noted of these have been Rudolph political system will probably not produce a capitalist political Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Natalia Makarova...

...ing the rest of the traditional peasant base of the Salvadoran society...

...roles in Philadelphia...

...tematically in the twenties and thirties, leading dancers were We need to put our aid through the civilian, not the military, transferred from Leningrad to Moscow...

...The change makes possible one of the more convincing The impressions one derived varied from place to place, recent film romances...

...Today it is not...

...Thus it was that two of the 1973 death squads are the price of "victory...

...There were Last Night substitutes a happy ending, which one can either no sustained seasons possible elsewhere because of the late- attribute to Hollywood convention or the screenwriters' (Deness in booking the tour...

...Stalin was particularly sector, and at the same time insure that the money not be used fond of the artistry of Galina Ulanova, and she found herself to create a "kleptocracy" (a government made rich by stealing assigned to the Bolshoi after dazzling Leningrad audiences...

...In effect, peace would be our best shown toward the general population and towards each other "weapon...

...Though no dancers and choreographers of COURTSHIP CASUALTIES their level are currently visible, the body of the company is 'LAST NIGHT' & 'HEARTBURN' strong...

...evacuated to that city during the siege of Leningrad in World The U.S...

...About Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia, and Trenton...

...Where our agree, with the single qualification of removing the "might...

...We have to deal with the reality that a liberalized defections...

...administration will not attempt to "build democracy" as the U.S...

...reassuring...

...can't demand a "frozen social revolution" as the War II...

...If the Salvadoran government thinks our sup- Maryinsky Ballet, it was always looked upon with some suspiport is unlimited, it has no incentive and no ability to make cion and jealousy by the restored capital city, Moscow...

...Hers initial casualness, loving him too much...

...The closer the lovers get, the more their friends attempt textbook clarity...

...govern- Dance ment wants, but these attitudes can only be suppressed by letting the death squads go back to their old ways...

...The corps de ballet is what the company wisely chose to feature on its first North American tour in twenty-two years...

...from its people) dependent upon us for its very survival...

...DON McDONAGH streets when he realizes he's made a mistake rejecting love...

...The ironic effect of we are now doing in El Salvador: by substituting our dollars present American policies is to complete a "forced-draft and military support for the social base that an indigenous urbanization and "modernization" of El Salvador, by destroy- democracy requires...

...They may be enthralled by the vertigin- Some viewers might be offended by the film's unstinting ous look of ice-skating-styled turns and snapped-out arm use of four-letter words and Belushi's male-locker-room view gestures of insect quickness at the expense of organically of sex...

...There are promising young disgusting and funny comic extravagance...

...It is no surprise therefore that we have to understand that if there is no such force there, then Russian medalists often find their way into the Bolshoi rather our effort is wasted...

...However, in both the over...

...Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago...

...able on such short notice...

...the corps de ballet in the opening moments of "The Shades" The screenplay, moreover, retains Mamet's tart view of two act, with their endlessly repeated attitude-renverse sequence, "friends" figures, Lowe's macho drinking pal, played by Jim _was a demonstration of the school at its best...

...Screen Withal, the Kirov is still a major company because of its sound school curriculum and traditions...

...nity for all political forces (including Marxist, Leninist, and In addition to transfers of established and rising talents, the Communist) to push their case, else the war will go on indefi- Kirov has lost many of its top dancers to the West through nitely...

...society functions best is in the arts of peace: business, comThe violence that the Marxist-Leninist wing of the FMLN has munications, and culture...

...United States, it was the leading company in the Soviet We can't continue the present policy of indefinitely increasing Union...

...Our policy of demanding a victory and an than back to their home companies, no matter where they have end to the death squads at the same time simply can't work: received their training...

...We must hope that the next the army nor the FMLN can win the military struggle (unless U.S...

...It was the school that produced Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Michael Fokine, and George Balanchine...