Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uncompromisingly outspoken in his criticism." Since then, and particularly over the past two decades, TIME has reported at great length on the activities of other Soviet citizens who have publicly protested the Kremlin's brutal rule. This week we return again to the subject with a lengthy excerpt from a soon-to-bepublished memoir by Elena Bonner, who lives in exile in the closed city of Gorky with her husband, Andrei Sakharov, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist and spiritual leader of the Soviet dissident movement. Bonner's son-in-law electrified the Frankfurt Book Fair last week with the news that...
Rosovsky read aloud an excerpt from the editorial that said, "The 'presence of distinguished alumni and affiliates in the houses,' so pompously promoted for the 350th, is supposed to be an everyday occurrence. The fact that it takes a very special occasion indeed to bring Henry Rosovsky to Mather House offers an honest but ironic commentary on the distance between undergraduates and Harvard's elder elite...
Banks puts another text to good use: an excerpt from Beckett's Rockabye--"Time she stopped. Time stopped..."--signals the end of the play. Both additions contribute intriguingly non-sensical asides to the production. Even better are the photography and films that appear on the screen throughout the work; they are often mesmerizing and pleasantly distracting...
...Russian "yearning for his homeland." Could this be the same Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian-born novelist, whom Soviet authorities had long dismissed for "literary snobbism"? It could indeed, when a Soviet publication, 64 Chess Review, is prompted by today's new, more permissive cultural climate to print an excerpt from Nabokov's 1954 memoir Other Shores with a glowing introduction by Poet Fazil Iskander. So what if Nabokov is nine years dead, his greatest works, including the sensational Lolita, published decades ago? So what that the 2,000-word excerpt only chronicles the author's labors on a chess...
...initial wonder of the show is that unlike most adaptations, David Edgar's script does not merely excerpt Charles Dickens' 800-page novel about greed vs. decency in Victorian London: virtually all of it is there, twists and turns, guffaws and grief, more than 130 characters wearing some 375 costumes and 75 wigs. Yet the epic sweep almost never overwhelms the emotional intimacy. Good ultimately triumphs in each of the half a dozen interwoven plots, but the show ends with the now wealthy title character carrying an abandoned boy--a symbol of the hapless children whom Nicholas frees from...