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...first scene establishes the play's mood of underlying despair and over-hanging wit. Max accuses his wife Charlotte of infidelity, disputing her claim that she has just returned from a Geneva art auction. Due to Stoppard's cunning, his ambiguous lines refer to either her new lover or her trip. "How's old Geneva then? Frank doing well?" "What?" Charlotte asks. "The Swiss Franc. Is it doing well?" They refuse to address the crisis at hand. Instead, Max digresses on apparently far-out topics which actually parallel the scene's conflict, a technique Stoppard uses and overuses later...
Nonetheless, police officials last week announced that some 30,000 files have been smuggled out of the U.S.-administered center in recent years. Dealers in Nazi memorabilia have offered some papers for prices ranging from $120 to $2,950. Others have shown up in auction houses in Hamburg, Munich and London. Police fear that some files may have been used to blackmail former Nazis trying to recast their lives...
...about this time that my family went to Washington for a weekend. Geraldine Ferraro, who had just been elected to the House of Representatives the year before, donated the trip to an auction held by my elementary school, where her daughter was a student...
...Lopakhin, less a brash parvenu than a man poignantly conscious of his humble origins and clumsily trying to fit in. He is in his own way just as dreamy as Lyubov (Natasha Parry), the estate's spendthrift owner, whom he constantly upbraids for her impracticality. She ignores the impending auction of her home because any available means to "save" it would change and therefore destroy it. When Lopakhin cannot recruit her to his scheme, he plunges ahead, basing his gamble less on business acumen than on a burbling belief in the benefits of universal home ownership...
...earnest Japanese pastiches of Renoir, looking like inflamed rubber dolls. The only artist in it whom anyone in America is likely to have heard of is Fujita Tsuguji, he of the sinuous, minutely penciled studio nudes whose prices seemed so excessive when the Japanese started buying them back at auction 15 years ago. And yet, against all the odds, this is a fascinating show -- one of the most curious spectacles of cultural relativity in recent memory...