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Like the author's previous The Russian Years, this concluding volume benefits mightily from the cooperation of Nabokov's widow and son. But their assistance should not overshadow biographer Boyd's ability to penetrate the mysteries of the great novelist's art and life with uncommon insight and elegance. On...
MEETING VENUS. A Hungarian guest conductor (Niels Arestrup) meets a Swedish diva (Glenn Close) while rehearsing Wagner's Tannhauser with a motley and disputatious band of emigre musicians in Paris. Result: a funny, satirical, romantic and -- above all -- intelligent film about backstage intrigues and onstage triumphs.
A. I am not very happy with the situation. But this is the reality, and I have to live with it. I could have been given asylum in the Soviet Union -- I have friends there -- but I wanted to live in Germany. My parents, my brother and I $ left for...
With about 60 parties fielding candidates, the run-up to Poland's first truly independent parliamentary elections next weekend has been chaotic. But at least emigre businessman Stanislaw Tyminski, founder of Party X, won't be there to kick the electorate around anymore. Earlier this month he flew home to...
"Freedom to Kuwait. I am for war. Peace for Kuwait. Peace for Israel. Kill Saddam Hussein," said immanuel Glazer, 46, a Soviet Jewish emigre driving a truck which was caught in a traffic jam caused by the protest. "I am strictly for Bush's policy," he said.