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This classic plot does not sound funny and much of it is not, but a good deal of it is. Chekhov's compassion for his characters' bruised hearts never blurred the amused clinical eye he focuses on their petty, self-deluding foibles. Chekhov frowned on directors who made...
She never goes to work anymore, or bothers to call in. She waits all day, all day. Now the little sunlight that her room catches in the late afternoon is fading away. She is glad. The sun never brightened the room, only spotlighted its shabby attempt at cleanliness and style...
Still and all, the mood of the evening is impeccably sustained and, rather surprisingly, it is not so much jolly and summery as triste and autumnal. It is as if these world-weary beings had sated their aristocratic tastes on almost every experience except the simplest of joys. Designer Boris...
The autumnal, post-landslide truce between the Nixon Administration and the TV networks ended abruptly last week with a wintry blast from Indianapolis. Speaking before a local chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Clay T. Whitehead, director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (OTP), attacked the networks-particularly network...
As always, Librikov manages to find amusing new ways to air his old crotchets about the waywardness of mechanical contrivances and other intrusions upon daily serenity. The standard taxi door is accurately compared to "an opening for emerging dwarfs." The plumbing in an old hotel is like a whining, stupid...