Word: hermits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...live like a hermit on the outskirts of Moscow. I communicate only with those who guard me from others-and who guard others from me." Thus begin the reminiscences of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who was the most powerful man in the Soviet Union from 1955 until his downfall in 1964. Khrushchev's rather forlorn comment on his enforced six-year silence is all the more poignant coming from a man who stood for so long at the center of history. At week's end the ex-Premier, 76, was admitted to a Moscow hospital, reportedly suffering...
Before tree specialists stopped using hard pesticides like DDT to combat the elm disease, insecticide killings of birds were apparently common in Cambridge. Charles F. Walcott, a retired physician and amateur ornithologist, recalls seeing three insect-eating species-the robin, hermit thrush, and flicker-in "typical DDT convulsions" on his property off Sparks Street...
...making the show move. Unfortunately, Saunders has given them attitudes rather than parts. In this sense. George Sheanshang is magnificently fiery as the play's quasi-narrator, and Virginia Cook, a fine comedienne, plays confusion in the best Morton Lorne manner. Leigh Woods, as an actor playing a hermit whose life is investigated by the others, makes his character live in the brief sections where the playwright lets him live. But most of the time, Saunders has the hermit's tragedy described to us, rather than letting us see it for ourselves...
...virtual hermit at his Mougins retreat in southern France, Pablo Picasso was forced to emerge by a toothache. On the streets of Cannes he looked in turn pained and relieved, allowing the public one of its few glimpses of the master in almost a year...