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...scratch their hairy orange arms. With ape-like gestures, the cast members of the Mainstage production of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade shriek, jabber and carry on. As the inmates of the asylum of Charenton, they perform a play within a play. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat, written by one of their own number, the Marquis de Sade...
...last-ditch attempt to persuade the Soviet Union to reconsider its boycott of this summer's Olympic Games in Los Angeles. But the effort was over before it began. Conferring privately the evening before the meeting, Los Angeles Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth and Soviet Sports Chief Marat Gramov found themselves in accord on one point and not much else. Said Ueberroth: "It would be misleading to suggest that we came even an inch closer to a solution." Agreed Gramov: "The decision is irrevocable...
...Moscow and the West, there are about as many theories as there are Kremlinologists, and it is likely that many of them hold at least some truth. Even athletic prospects could have played a role. In both Washington and Moscow there is speculation that Soviet Olympic Committee Chairman Marat Gramov surveyed the Soviet competitors, concluded that despite their prowess, they might not win quite so many medals as both Soviet citizens and Western sportsmen were expecting, and notified his political superiors of a possible embarrassment...
...reigns of the Protopopovs and Irina Rodnina and her succession of partners, Sergei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, had come to an end. Since Lake Placid, several pairs had taken aim at one another, among them the Carrutherses, two Soviet pairs (Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, and Veronika Pershina and Marat Akbarov) and East Germans Sabine Baess and Tassilo Thierbach. Compared with the liturgical certainty of pairs skating during the past three decades, the Sarajevo Games were a free...
...Robespierre's actual words in the deruncistory speech he delivers before the Convention. Only rarely does his scene setting tend toward excess or degenerate into same dropping as in Robespierre's visit to the studio of Jacques Louis David, where the great artist is finishing his famous "Death of Marat...