Word: gogol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of Kosinski's treatment of Communism is pure Gogol. Says one freedom-starved university student: "I've discovered more than thirty public buildings in different parts of the city, all with temples like this, all waiting for me." He is referring not to clandestine churches but to the freest places in the country-the stalls in public toilets. Elsewhere the narrator attends a party reception and observes a disaffected scientist pinning foil-wrapped condoms to the chests of unsuspecting apparatchiks...
...bloody days in the North African desert 25 years ago. Among other specials in debut last week: CBS's "Flanders and Swann," a wryly amusing hour, but too familiar to anyone who had seen the British song-and-patter team on Broadway; and CBS's dramatization of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, which, while a triumph for French Actor Roger Cog-gio, who learned the English dialogue phonetically, was too lacking in action to satisfy the visual demands...
DIARY OF A MADMAN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Nicolai Gogol's story of the mental disintegration of a government clerk, as performed by French Actor Roger Coggio...
...underground, a fact that leads to an explosive and tragic finale. Director Jifi Menzel mixes the real and the surreal, ribaldry and pathos, comedy and tragedy-yet keeps the movie on the track all the way. Much credit goes to Actors Somr and Neckar, who straight-facedly exemplify Gogol's view that "what is utterly absurd happens in the world...
STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ontario. Until Oct. 14, Canadians and visitors will get a taste of Russian humor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, with The Merry Wives of Windsor providing the Anglo-Saxon comedy. Richard 111, played by Alan Bates, represents a somewhat darker strain. On July 31, Christopher Plummer appears as Antony, with Zoe Caldwell as his Cleopatra. A new play, James Reaney's Colours in the Dark, debuts July...