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With the help of the Russian Ministry of Culture, curators Joseph Bakshtein, Kathrin Becker, Zdenka Gabalova and Alanna Heiss have done a remarkable job on a very tight budget. A sampling of Socialist Realism was included in a broader Russian exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1977, but otherwise nothing like this show has been seen in America before. The very notion of an American museum asking for Stalinist paintings seems so weird that any interest in them is bound to seem morbid. To look at, say, Vasili Svarog's ebullient 1939 painting of Stalin and the jolly...
...elimination of school figures, which required years of concentration to perfect, has revitalized the sport in another way. Now anyone in the top talent pool can win any given competition. Says American coach Carol Heiss Jenkins: "It will be more like tennis -- the winner will be whoever is good on that day." She should know: her pupil Lisa Ervin, a mere 14 years old, leaped her way into fourth place at last month's U.S. national championships. Another two points and she would have been the youngest competitor at Albertville...
Ervin was competing in the strongest field of U.S. skaters since 1956, when the Olympic women's team was Tenley Albright, Heiss (both future gold medalists) and Catherine Machado. This year's trio could sweep the medals, as they did at last year's world's championship in Munich. If they do not, the reason will probably be Japan's Midori Ito, 21. She is 4 ft. 9 in. and built like a fireplug. But can she fly! At Munich her image was set indelibly, warts and all, when she took off and whirled, airborne, into the stands. That...
...Millenium Ensemble-with director Theodore Antoniou and guest-conductor Eric Rombach performs John Heiss's Songs of Nature, Fred Lerdahl's Fantasy Etudes and Ingolf Dahl's Duettino Concertante. At the Tsai Performance Center at 685 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Call 353-3345. Tuesday...
Arlene T. Heiss, director of annual and reunion giving at the Radcliffe development office, said she was excited about the expansion and called it a "very important point in Radcliffe history...