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...last week, that CIA officer, who asked that he not be named, recalled how worried he felt when Polyakov was suddenly ordered to return to Moscow in June 1980. "You know, if anything happens, you are always welcome in our country," the American began to babble, like a nervous lover. "I hope the day will come when I can sit down openly with you and have drinks and dinner in our country." The Russian fixed him with steel-blue eyes and replied, quietly and evenly, "Don't wait for me. I am never going to the United States...
...Arab as Exotic Lover. Immortalized as The Sheik (1921), Rudolph Valentino once owned the franchise on faux Semitic Romeos. The nobly savage Italian actor and a host of imitators swept a generation of European love interests into their arms -- the ladies' honor often preserved by eleventh- hour plot devices (in the case of The Sheik, Valentino's character was revealed to be an Englishman in Middle Eastern drag). More recently, crudely comic variations on this theme have had Western women fending off oversexed petrosheiks in films like Protocol (1984) and The Jewel of the Nile...
Margaret Handles is a rarity in recent serious fiction, a throwback to the larger-than-life heroine. She's a regular Annie Oakley, shooting up the town. When her lover brings around a framed photograph of the girl his parents have arranged for him to marry, Margaret draws her revolver and pulverizes the picture. Two more shots follow, with greater consequence to the plot of Howard Norman's startling, ambitious novel, The Bird Artist (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 289 pages...
...ability to utter home truths or her prowess in bed. It just loosens her trigger finger. She lives, just after the turn of the century, not in the Wild West but in the remote hamlet of Witless Bay, Newfoundland (one store, one restaurant, a sawmill and a drydock). Her lover is Fabian Vas, the narrator, who could easily have been the subject of a stultifying art novel. From age 8 he has spent most of his time in inlets and marshes sketching birds, turning his impressions into meticulous paintings that he sells to magazines. A placid life on the surface...
...presents a Leopold acquiescent to self-destruction, Rouse demands a more complex interpretation, reading Havel's play as a study in tragic hilarity. Rouse goes a fair distance to portray the outside world from which Leopold is excluded, transforming Lucy (Jessica Walling), Leopold's unrequited mistress, into a lascivious lover who must compete with the male "friend" Bertram, for the professor's attention, and juxtaposing the confused living room existence of the actual drama with cascades off-stage laughter between Leopold's friends, Suzana (Jessica Fortunato) and Edward (Thomas Parks...