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...conceivable taste. As an actor who tests himself spiritually as well as physically with every role, you would have appreciated Alain Cavalier's Therese, the austere yet accessible biography of St. Therese Martin. As the auteur of Staying Alive, you would have been impressed by the cinematic virtuosity of Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice, an end-of-the-world antidrama in which all the excitement is in the composition of images, the balletry of actors and camera, the surprise of lighting, the big crazy fire at the climax. As a sympathetic director of women (who could ever forget Adrian...
...Socialist political leaders. Still, he is regarded by some Western diplomats as conservative and cautious, an unsophisticated apparatchik who has a reputation for stonewalling at every turn. Some observers regard him as a throwback to the bad old days of Soviet diplomacy, close both personally and in style to Andrei Gromyko, the stolid and dour bureaucrat who presided over superpower relations for nearly three decades...
...dark, somber photograph showing Andrei Sakharov in his Gorky apartment would stir interest under any circumstances. But it is especially notable since the photographer is the subject's wife Yelena Bonner. Taken in October of last year, the picture was released to mark her husband's 65th birthday this week. Bonner, who is in the U.S. for medical treatment until June 2, used the occasion to express the "hope that my husband will be free and would enjoy at least the rights of other citizens of the country in which he was born, lived all his life and for which...
Along with his boss Andrei Gromyko, Dobrynin looked Kennedy in the eye and denied there were missiles in Cuba. Did he lie? Probably. But he was forgiven because his untruth was within the bounds of diplomatic duplicity. He negotiated enthusiastically for an arms summit with Lyndon Johnson. The night before announcement of the summit, Dobrynin rushed to tell the President that Soviet troops were moving into Czechoslovakia. End of summit. Another deception? Of course, but again he charmed his way back to credibility...
...Macbett is Macbeth with a twist--more than a twist, actually. lonesco puts Shakespeare through a meatgrinder and winds up with something that falls between Monty Python and the Marx Brothers. If this production is more silly than profound, though, much of the dubious credit should go to director Andrei Molotiu, who has turned the play's darker moments into absurd self-parody...