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...Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association's female members carried swords made out of cardboard and other house supplies. “We’re calling [the routine] ‘Cute Girls with Large Swords,’” Tatyana V. Avilova ’13 said...
When playing the game, you are someone you are not. Tatyana “Tanya” V. Avilova ’13—a freshman player in the band—vanishes as soon as the session begins. Her blond hair grays; her flushed checks sprout a long beard, braided in an elaborate chain. Her height shrinks to a mere 4’ 3”. Her otherwise sweet voice becomes heavy and gruff...
...evidence, Chekhov was always discreet and gentlemanly in his affairs with women. Lydia Avilova, a persistent and hysterical pursuer, was tactfully kept at bay for years. When the playwright finally married, it was to Olga Knipper, one of Moscow's best-known actresses. Unfortunately, her career frequently kept her in the city, and his illness tied him to Yalta. He died at age 44, drinking champagne with Olga at his bedside. The death scene is cordon bleu Chekhov. A large black moth flutters into the room, and as the body of the famous man cools, the cork pops...
Ernest Simmons, formerly chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literature at Columbia University, suffers from the biographer's occupational disease -a constitutional inability to leave out any detail, however trivial. But his book does build to considerable power. Using new source material, Simmons demolishes Writer Lidiya Avilova's claim, put forth in her book Chekhov in My Life, that she was the writer's secret lifelong passion. Chekhov's only love. Simmons insists, was Olga Knipper, one of the first of a long series of famous actresses (including Dame Sybil Thorndike. Dame Judith Anderson...
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