Word: myshkin
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...Reagan in her new book, "Way Out There in the Blue" (Simon & Schuster, 592 pages, $30). Fitzgerald goes for the unambivalent version - a Reagan who is cheerfully, dangerously clueless, a simpleton actor who performs superbly when standing on chalk marks and reading from a script, the GOP's Prince Myshkin. Fitzgerald takes her title from the cliche in Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman": "Willy [Loman] was a salesman... He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine." Ronnie Reagan is Willy Loman done up as a sparkling success instead...
...police officers were on hand, including detectives in tuxedos, as the Berlin company performed Panov's staging of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. It is a ballet of terror and violence, in which the beautiful Natasya is murdered by her thwarted lover, Rogozhin. As his rival, Prince Myshkin, performed the final scene, a madman's vision of the world consumed by fire, the audience broke into wild applause...
Mark Johnson rapped in a loose puck with less than 12 minutes left in regulation, and a wristshot by captain Mike Eruzione beat Soviet netminder Vladimir Myshkin 1:21 later, to secure the victory...
Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov had put Myshkin in the nets to replace starter Vladislav Tretiak at the end of the first period, which ended in a 2-2 deadlock...
...play is Montgomery's first work, perhaps autobiographical and certainly immature; it doesn't build to any resolution of crises, only defines the forces it presents more clearly as the evening progresses. What Montgomery dramatizes are his characters' most heightened psychological confrontations, particularly as they affect his Prince Myshkin--a bloodhound who seeks out people's torments, not their persons; a self-deceived martyr hoping to relieve the suffering of mankind while he seems to further it. Montgomery creates a sexual triangle among the coarse Rogochin, the passionate, misused and vengeful Natasha, and the sexless Myshkin, undercutting any examination...