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...play revolves around the tribulations of Konstantin Treplev (Mark Rylance), son of the notorious actress Arkadina (Christine Estabrook). At the beginning of The Seagull, Konstantin's experimental play meets with laughs; he spends most of the first act alienating its star, his beloved Nina (Stephanie Roth). Nina proceeds to fall in love with Arkadina's lover, Trigorin (Mark Metcalf), a noted writer of whom Konstantin is bitterly jealous...
...among the spoiled communist elite. Once, at a gathering at a state dacha, she warned the children not to break the chandelier. "I was told: 'Not to worry. It's government property, it can be written off.' " By March 10, 1985, the night before he was chosen to replace Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary, Gorbachev was so frustrated with the party's self-satisfied sclerosis that he told his wife, "((The country)) just can't go on like this." Despite her commitment to her husband's reforms, Raisa admits that so far perestroika "has given us much and very little...
Some regional vintners complain that their wines are victims of snobbism. Critics rave about the Champagne-like sparklers made by Willy Frank, whose father Konstantin was the first to prove that vinifera grapes could be grown in New York's Finger Lakes area. The praise hasn't helped sales much. "The New Yorker has almost a reverse chauvinism against anything made in New York," Frank says. "I have shipped more wine to Tokyo than to New York City." Chaddsford's Eric and Lee Miller have been luckier in persuading local restaurants, including Philadelphia's highly rated...
...judge read the verdict in the Moscow courtroom last week, the defendant erupted. "I'm ready to die for Russia," yelled Konstantin Smirnov- Ostashvili, 54, leader of a faction of Pamyat, the ultra-right, Russian nationalist movement. "It's all a lie!" Unfazed, the judge sentenced Smirnov-Ostashvili to two years of hard labor for shouting anti-Semitic threats at a meeting of liberal writers last January...
Kansas State's Janet Haskins broke out from the throng that caught Jones at the 8800-meter mark and eventually finished 30 meters ahead of the pack in a time of 33:49.72. Lisa Stone of Baylor took second in 33:51.50, Christi Konstantin of Georgetown nabbed third in 33:55.57, and Jones crossed the line...