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...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...
...publishers sought $12,500 in damages, the amount lost when TIME, which had purchased first magazine publication rights, dropped its plan to print a 7,500-word excerpt. A contract clause had been specifically designed to protect TIME in the event of prior publication by another magazine or newspaper. The publishers won in federal district court. But the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City held that the unauthorized publication was justified under the fair-use clause of the copyright law. The clause allows protected works to be quoted for purposes of criticism, teaching, research or news reporting...
Lord Mountbatten, in a newly released 1961 excerpt of his diary, on the dawning space era: "If there is general disarmament, this will be a wonderful age, but if our ability to control space is solely to be used to increase our destructive capabilities, then I see little chance of the world surviving...
...project was supervised by Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who has helped excerpt the memoirs of Kissinger, Carter, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Historian Theodore White for TIME. "It's always fascinating to look in these windows on history," he says. "What we're trying to do is give our readers fresh insights and illuminations of the news, a dimension that is almost impossible to achieve by even the best weekly journalism...