That Glasnost Girl

That Glasnost GirlForty-five million Russians can't be wrong, though quite a few were taken by surprise when, as one critic observed, glasnost came "storming out of the gate," gloriously embodied by Natalya Negoda in Little Vera (see review, page 20). One astonished Moscow movie maven called director Vasily Pichul's controversial film an act of cultural terrorism--as if someone had dropped a bomb into the lap of Mother Russia. There has been nothing quite like it in the annals of U.S.S...