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Richard Vaisey, 46, lectures on Russian literature at the London Institute of Slavonic Studies and lives well beyond his professional means, thanks to the money inherited by his wife Cordelia. He has lived with her for 10 years, and in that time he has almost stopped noticing her theatrical gestures and her peculiar style of speech: "Never having cared to ask her about it, Richard had had fantasies of an Andorran nanny, a childhood in a posh Albanian household that had left no other mark, before concluding that Cordelia just spoke Cordelian, a pronunciational idiolect." When friends mock...
Given the tensions that gibber and flap through most marriages, Cordelia's affectations seem rather venial, particularly since her wealth makes Richard's existence so cushy. But she and her husband live in the world of Kingsley Amis, where the rules of decorum are a lot stricter and funnier than in ordinary life. Cordelia just won't do, and The Russian Girl (Viking; 296 pages; $22.95) hilariously shows...
Richard's other ethical dilemma concerns Cordelia, who has decided that he and what she calls his Russian girl-friend are having an affair well before they in fact begin...
...better when quiet than when kinetic (no matter whom she plays, her posture and gestures look the same). The personal text is better acted, if sometimes too cute. Her impersonations range from dead-on (Maggie Smith) to unrecognizable (Olivier). There are two telling exceptions: she is stunning as both Cordelia and Hamlet, speaking of their fathers, one remote, one dead. Here art unmistakably resonates with life...
With 2:25 left in the game Cordelia Washington of Northeastern connected on a three point play that cut the Harvard lead...