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...cheerful surroundings and youthful excitement, however, are a false window into the mood of most Muscovites. Apart from a few cosmetic changes, the city is literally a mess, giving citizens far more immediate problems to worry about than Kremlin intrigues and superpower summitry. Injuries from slips, falls and other pedestrian mishaps were reported to be running as high as 1,200 a day because the city can no longer afford enough tools and workers to clear the filthy, slush-filled streets. Mountains of sodden cardboard boxes are piling up behind new sheet-metal stands, where vendors sell cigarettes, candy...
...film's greatest successes are its wonderful scenic design and cinematography. The Kittredges' Fifth Avenue apartment is precisely the kind you would envision. The huge window overlooking Central Park, the walls draped in red velvet and the expensive but rather eclectic mix of knickknacks and furniture, are terribly authentic...
...helpful, I think, is that they are students just like you and me. They need a job, see an ad seeking help in Room B13, sign up, get the job, receive some training (what the training involves I do not know), and get placed at the help window. You walk up to them thinking: Aha, here is someone I can trust. But oftentimes you are bound to be disappointed...
...slammed a door hard enough so that it shook the house," he explained. At first he thought it was his water heater blowing up. When no gushers of water followed, he waited until the child was asleep before looking out his door and catching sight of the blasted-out window in a town house 25 ft. away, the one rented by a woman named Pamela Lazore-Lanza. A bomb had gone off, killing Lazore-Lanza and a male friend. The bomb was one of four such devices that exploded almost simultaneously in different parts of western New York, killing five...
...Freud achieved in Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, 1983-87. (The "Japanese wrestlers" of the title are not real sumo contenders, but fragmentary pictures of them pinned to the wall.) There are amazing feats of sheer visual dissection in this show, such as the view from the studio window, Wasteground with Houses, Paddington, 1970-72, or Two Plants, 1977-80, in which it seems that every leaf of hundreds has been given its own specific color, structure and marking in a way that John Ruskin might have approved...