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Tolstaya roams the nighttime city, taking us behind the flickering blue lights of a thousand windows. We share the unsought intimacy of overpeopled apartments where "another person's wall darkens and swells with autumn anguish." Those who suffer must not only endure their plight; they must also surrender the peculiarly human right to be themselves: to lust, to scheme, to betray, to generally behave badly. Tolstaya is there to remind us that not even history at its most reckless can rob individuals of the right to their own stories...
...past persecution by the KGB and by the need to settle old scores to be a truly democratic leader. Obsessed with conspiracies involving "agents of the Kremlin," the President closed down liberal newspapers and barred critics from television. During a wave of protest against his authoritarian rule last autumn, police loyal to him fired on demonstrators, and he jailed opposition leaders. He was intent on extending his power into the provinces by appointing presidential prefects, but he showed no interest in radical economic reforms. Georgia became isolated from the other republics, especially Russia, the region's primary supplier of bread...
...WARMISH--and then coldish and later rainyish--autumn afternoon, I put on my one pair of comfortable shorts and a T-shirt and marched over to the MAC. I flashed ID, went up to the boxing office on the third floor and met Tommy Rawson: boxing coach, octagenarian and giver of wisdom. I introduced myself...
Those stories and their setting demonstrate neither the arbitrariness nor the happenstance of realism, but rather the symbolism and metaphor of poetic art. We are not just in a late autumn of crunchy leaves, but also the autumn of a relationship...
LAND OF THE EAGLE (PBS, Nov. 24-27, 8 p.m. on most stations). "For the Cherokee, autumn is a time of great renewal . . ." If you can survive George Page's droning narration, you'll better appreciate the lush photography in this eight-hour survey of the natural history of North America...