Word: elena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these elements are present in Uncle Vanya, and they are vividly realized in a superbly exhilarating revival directed by Mike Nichols. An arid, aging retired professor, Serebryakov (Barnard Hughes) returns to the family estate with his young wife Elena (Julie Christie). The visit is a catalytic agent that exposes the alternately tragic and comic tensions of unrequited loves and lives. The caustically self-pitying Uncle Vanya (Nicol Williamson), who has worked the estate along with his niece Sonya (Elizabeth Wilson), realizes that he has sacrificed his life in the service of a pompous academic fraud. The mute adoration he offers...
...local doctor Astrov (George C. Scott) yearns for a Russia that would not brutalize its peasants and ravish its land, but disillusion has sunk him in drink. He too falls half in love with Elena, and she with him, but she is too indolent and conventional to make an erotic leap to freedom. Poor Sonya loves Astrov-a futile, heartbreaking hope that exists only to be dashed. When Vanya learns that Serebryakov proposes to sell the estate, he goes staggeringly blind with rage and fires two revolver shots at the professor, missing both times-the ultimate, humiliating proof...
...government press became a giant birthday card with Comrade pictures and Ceauşescu." greetings to "beloved Congratulatory messages were actively solicited, and in they poured, including salutations from Richard Nixon, Willy Brandt and Mao Tse-tung. The personality cult has extended to Ceauşescu's wife Elena, director of a chemical research institute. At her husband's instigation, she was elected to the Communist Party's 185-member Central Committee. "You might say the personality cult is a sort of antidote to factionalism," explains one Western diplomat. "Ceauşescu has a strong determination...
CENTRAL II. Days and Nights in the Forest, 6, 9:45. Elena and the Men, 8:05, weekend...
...what point," asked Queens County Civil Court Judge Leonard Finz, "does a jury's reasonability end and a judge's reason begin?" At issue was a hospital bill of $8,999.45 charged to Mrs. Elena Bubliatis. She and her husband had been severely injured in an auto accident, and the husband later died. Because their medical insurance was deemed insufficient to pay all the expenses, the hospital got Mrs. Bubliatis to sign a guarantee-of-payment form for her husband's bills while she was still under, as Finz put it, "extreme physical and emotional stress." When...