Word: melle
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Like many adaptations of classic novels, Lyubimov's is less a retelling of the story than a musing on its themes, best understood by people who know its plot well. Raskolnikov (Randle Mell) harps on the quasi-Nietzschean idea that conquerors absolve themselves of sin by the very act of conquest. He repeatedly urges himself to be a Napoleon -- which, Lyubimov acknowledges, Soviet audiences often took to mean a Stalin. These philosophical monologues, however, are kept brief. Lyubimov relies heavily on ritual and brief blackout skits that verge on surreal slapstick; he creates a milieu more than he mounts...
...company in Mary, a new cbs series. This time Mary's Mary is a touch more contrary--"ten years older and a little bit wiser," says Moore, 47. In the script, Mary Brenner works for a paper called the Chicago Post. But as it happens, Chicago Vice Mayor Richard Mell publishes a real monthly community newspaper called--whoops!--the Chicago Post. Faced with serious legal problems, the show's technical wizards last week were reported busy exorcising all audio and visual references to the Post before the first show aired. Beady-eyed viewers should enjoy looking closely...
John McGivaren is a retired Navy pilot who found Freeport a quiet village when he moved here in 1977. Two years ago, with the pace quickening, Barbara campaigned against pell-mell development and won a seat on the town council. "We experienced a shock," she says. "Where Hathaway (shirts) is was Downs' grocery. That went out of business. Bass (shoes) used to be Freeport Variety, the paper store, and that's where you met your neighbor." Freeport has been gentrified, she says, by stores too pricey for her constituents. Yet, she confesses, "I'll tell you what...
...insisting that they represented the new democracy's rejection of class-ridden Europe. Thomas Jefferson made a point of receiving foreign diplomats and all other White House visitors without any distinctions of rank, which led to a scramble for seats that he called the "rule of pell-mell." "When brought together in society," Jefferson wrote in a memo to his Cabinet, "all are perfectly equal, whether foreign or domestic, titled or untitled, in or out of office." ("Nowadays," Judith Martin observed in the course of giving a lecture on philosophy at Harvard in May, "he might have worn...
...Talbott, that all along these negotiations, Reagan has failed to understand many of the basic disarmament policies of his government. Why should Gromyko take us seriously? Why, indeed, given the record, should we take the sudden about-face in U.S. approach, Reagan's soothing words, and the apparent pell-mell scramble for a Chernenko-Reagan summit seriously...