Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Slave of Love was one of the few recent Soviet films to receive critical acclaim and a measure of box-office success when it was released in the U.S. last year. A touching, gently comic portrait of a movie company on location in 1917, Slave of Love shows a group of innocents trying to avoid being caught up in the revolution. In Five Evenings, Mikhalkov tells the story of a middle-aged man and woman trying to pick up the threads of a romance they were forced to sever during World War II. And in his latest film, Oblomov...
...begins one of its twice-weekly sessions by executing handstands on the parallel bars. In Moscow's Central Army Sports Club, teams of soldiers exchange their combat boots for skates; a hockey puck is soon cracking like gunfire against the wooden boards. Near by, in Luzhniki Park, a group of middle-aged citizens sets out on a supervised 10-km walk, picking berries along...
Maybe in popularity. Pesnyary is the U.S.S.R.'s best-known attraction on record and in concert. The group sings soupy, over-orchestrated versions of Belorussian folk tunes and looks like a polka band that got lost on the way to a beer bust. Still, Pesnyary is most prominent in a field that includes groups like Optimisty (the Optimists) and Vesyoliye Rebyata (the Happy Fellows). The titles suggest what the material is like: How Wonderful the World Is!, It Isn't Your Flowers That I Love and I'll Take You Away to the Tundra. Even newer, rock...
...novella Starry Ticket, for example, a group of Muscovite dropouts run away to the Baltic beaches to escape the crushing conservatism of their elders. Old guard critics were scandalized, as much by the "uncivic" behavior of Aksyonov's heroes and heroines as by their use of colloquial speech, mixed with underworld and concentration-camp slang, invented words and such Americanisms as gudbai, Brodvei and bugi-vugi. Funny, fresh and richly expressive, Aksyonov's idiom has been his contribution to the larger effort of modern Russian poets to rescue the Russian language from deadening officialese...
...waits with such single-minded devotion is always rewarded in the end." Sure enough, one day "an incredible horde" came tumbling out of a train, laughing and shouting. "In a moment Ruslan was transformed: flexible, alert, his yellow eyes sharp and keen." The dogs mistake for prisoners a group of construction workers who have come to turn the abandoned camp site into a factory. When the young people begin strolling toward the site in a disorganized column, some singing and even dancing to the music of accordions, the dogs know what to do: attack...