Dr Yuri Zhivago’s convulated brain waves were torn between his mistress Lara Feodorvna Antipova and his wife Tonya, back in Paris.....

 

Navigating the emotional meltdown: World War one  the Russian Revolution Russia’s  civil war Tsar Nicholas Romanov’s murder not unlike his grandfather Alexander II..

 

The Cossack atrocities in Berdechev.... Kiev’s reality scene....timber and lumber assets seized, the Kaminskys fled to Odessa and  steerage to America’s Buffalo the Bronx and Bath and Cropsy Avenues off Bay 28^th Street in Jackie Gleason’s Bay Parkway.....four  blocks South.....Grandpa Kaminsky’s  dry fruit store on the corner..

 

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Meanwhile the scorched  upheaval of what was once entrenched  power and the diminishing value of life’s expectations: exponential to the labor camps and the Siberian gulag but a cattle train that made the Orient Express  a joy ride to Lunacy Park..

 

The Czarist regime not only was collapsing by its wicked excesses .... plunging indifference not listening with their third ears.....deaf to their own aggressive  Robespierres.

 

Surreal as only Picasso could fashion it, his sensuality into its DNA pool,  transcending  “crimes against humanity

 

“We want bread ddddy.... we want bread

 

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It was in this framework of maddening  calamity that the enlightened Kerenskys of the Ukraine attempted to model a semblance of America’s founding fathers  revolution to  the once  solecisms of  Rasputin’s conspicuous consumption.... ....dachas and self indulgence swept away ... the genesis of grandparents mothers and fathers brothers and sisters...  one year old tots in their own swirl of  baby strollers... nannies changing diapers  dissolved into the Muscovite dust .

 

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Shostakovich    Prokofiev   Rachmaninoff   Stravinsky  capturing those cataclysmic moments in their symphoniuc textures.....man’s inhumanity to man playing out....exhorted by Boris Pasternak in his Nobel  Laureate saga....

 

“Siberia   you pasgodniks....bread and water   you scum!

 

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However back at the Olympia Theatre in Paris  but a crow’s flight from the Odeon .... Gertrude Stein’s Shakespeare and company.....James Joyce...  Ernest Hemingway .... Tonya hanging by her thumbs waiting.......

“Paths of Glory”  co starrring Adolph Menjou and Kirk Douglas (“You’re a fraud, General”)_ the trenches, the Bolsheviks and the Whites thrusting their bayonets , while Dr. Zhivago and his nurse Lara ministered to the laboring breaths of  comrades and their alter egos. .

 

Tonya listening to the expatriate Afro American jazz bands....a foretaste of genocide: an entire race of Jews obliterated..... World War 2 Korea  (Spudnik) Vietnam Iraq  9/11  Afghanistan.

 

Art Blakey and his jzzz messengers in their set “I remember Clifford”.bass trumpet piano tenor sax   drums... (Buddy Rich Shelly Manne Gene Krupa)

 

 Miles Davis with John Coltrane...working band in jazz , Tonya caught up in the improvised flowing riff:...some measures of “Monk” as a skinny.... she snapping her fingers, stomping her eoes...

 

A look aslike for Charlie Chaplin’s oldest daughter Geraldine, Sydney’s step sister.

 

Bugs Bunny at 70 (Mel Blanc’s son )  Warners animation July 28 2010

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