Word: chekhovisms
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...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). U.S. premiere of a highly praised Russian film, The Lady with the Dog (1962), adapted from Anton Chekhov's short story...
...rest of the evening included a static sports roundup (a ten-minute speech by an athletic functionary, scenes of a factory woman doing calisthenics), a performance of Chekhov's Platonov's Loves, Thirty Minutes with the Hungarian Railway Philharmonic, and a half-hour newscast, with headlines read by a tight-lipped blonde. As with the rest of East European television, Hungary's news presentation carries virtually no film footage, nor even voice reports from foreign correspondents. The lead item usually updates what the satellite networks call America's "dirty aggressive war against the brave, peace-loving...
...small and rather delicate but bright and dazzling, too" on the crest of a Cape Cod sand dune, writing in a notebook. Robert Fitzgerald finds his face "old-fashioned and rural and honorable and a little toothy." His wife says that he grew the immense beard to look like Chekhov, but to another observer it hides "the naked vulnerability of his countenance...
...Among those who never received its accolade: Kafka, Tolstoy, Brecht, Chekhov, Conrad, Joyce, Twain...
...Dead. Sandy got her comeuppance during the ill-fated Actors Studio London run in 1965. Playing Irina in Chekhov's Three Sisters after too little rehearsal, she was booed and got the worst roasting of her career. The London Times described Sandy and Kim Stanley, who played another of the sisters, as "ludicrous and painful." Zeroing in on Sandy's speech ("I-er-I-ah"), Critic Bernard Levin of the Daily Mail reported that "I could barely restrain myself from screaming aloud with the pain of my throbbing nerves." Worse, Sandy was bypassed for the screen versions...