European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Soul music soviet style by Mary Campbell associated press Effie May be some scots who can t boor the . Bul it s a rare russian who bad Mouths Iho Balalaika the Balalaika is the instrument most close to Iho russian soul says Sergei Lukin. One. Of the 82 members of the Osipov Balalaika orchestra which is on a Lour of 40 american cities through March 9, ii is very tender very touching. It starts singing in the  of a Leal master what s a balalaika1 Well it s a stringed instrument somewhat like a guitar but .5 triangular shaped usually inns Only three strings and comes orchestra. Tho youngest of. I hair Izreo children now/5, waved his hands like a conductor by a kind of inheritance his father says before he could Alk. Butuson whose interest in horns crowded out ins earlier Balalaika playing has been in the orchestra for 20 years since he was 15, and has been on All its american hours in 1969, 71 and 77. Lukin 31. Started out playing the cello As a boy in music school., i was so Small and the cello was so big and heavy 1 thought it was better if i played this Dora to says since then i deeply  instrument this Dora player is the Best in the soviet  Kalinin says. He s concert master in the orchestra. He treats his Dora like a beloved  Lukin wife also plays Dora in the Osipov orchestra and in Iho american concerts Fiey play a Duel which they encore Wilh a Scott Joplin rag. The Osipov Balalaika orchestra is the Toyiel Union s biggest and Best conductor Kalinin says. It was founded by Vassily Navesey in 1919. Consisting of eight players Kalinin says redressed Iho Balalaika in a  conductor Nikolai Petrovich Osipov later added other instruments and commissioned composers alter his deals in. 1946, the orchestra was named Lor him. The sound caught on Oul Sido the soviet Union Kalinin adds alter Andreyev led a Lur Balalaika orchestras were formed in Coundrie j All Over the  however  As Kalinin knows All such enc Miles now Are in the soviet Union. Erwa Bombeck How s this ror a seduction scene you slip Iulg something satiny with a Spaghetti strap that Falls Iron the shoulder As you approach the bed with the perfumed sheets your foot becomes entangled in a Mound of paper being spewed Oul by a lax machine causing you to bump into the Ming Cabinet and Send the keyboard to the word processor crashing to the floor of Hal does t Lako the five out of your desk re in h at least slow you Down i did l know bedrooms had gone corporate until i complained in a column about the exercise by Cycle Al the Boito Al my bed the mail Hal followed Conlig Fileno me Jaccoi dog to one writer her bedroom is so Lull of business machines people ask who s your decorator Shear on Lehman Hulloin another one who complained of Romance Between the Sheds fax sheets lha is said she considered  in al1 Hal caper and becoming a turkish belly Tancer Pago 16 the stars and stripes one disenchanted Wile said she and her husband Don t. Have exercise equipment but they Are part of a new trend Hal brings a microwave oven and a Small refrigerator in their bed form Lor those Lato snacks of Popcorn and pizza while they re watching television another woman hollered to Trade me my exercise bicycle for the Large German Shepherd dog draped Over the toot of her bed every night Lea snoring  it has become apparent that the sexy mirrored bedroom thai television depicts As the last Slop before ecstasy in l a parking lol for sex of All but a or an Ollice a kiichen1 or a Kennel Here s a Challenge for you go to your bedroom and take a look is this a room Hal sets a Lone for intimacy passion and adventure 7 or is n decorated in the following decor Early cloth world a dress form sewing machine and Swatch cd of Malenas dominate the room. The shag Jug in the floor contains some decorating surprises monday March 6,1989 straight pins that go straight through a Bare loot Nee laundry my personal favorite is a bedroom where the bed is dramatically underplayed. It is buried under a Mountain of clothes Lobo loaded. Every night the. Clothes Are taken Oil Trie bed and dumped on chairs every morning the clothes Are returned to Iho bed collectable primitives Many bedrooms have Capo l  they hold hems Des Mcd to become Antiques these rooms Are stacked with Tho b re Cage of the Bird that died plans that need reporting a Carton containing  tissue purchased on sate stack of old decorating magazines cancelled checks bicycles Tor storing Etc one woman said her and her husband s bedroom hold a huge to screen and a Wall of videotapes of too Abaft games past 1ii bet even Alexis on dynasty never made love Wilh the Noire Dame Light song playing in the background1