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Chekhov's insistence that his plays were funny simply proves that the best of dramatists may be the worst of guides. The mainsprings of The Sea Gull's plot hardly elicit laughter. The jaded Trigorin (Christopher Walken), a fashionable author of about 35, is sensually drawn to Nina (Kathryn Bowling), an innocent 18-year-old. Watching Nina cradle a freshly killed sea gull, Trigorin jots down a writer's note: "An idea for a short story. A young girl has lived in a house on the shore of a lake since childhood, a young girl like...
...funny that the middle-aging actress Arkadina (Rosemary Harris) is desperately clinging to Trigorin as her last lover, and is so hermetically narcissistic that she contributes to the destruction of her son, the avant-garde writer Konstantin (Brent Spiner)? Is it funny that Konstantin loves Nina, who regards him as a nuisance? Or that he, in turn, is loved by the vodka-swigging Masha (Pamela Payton-Wright), whom he detests...
...Nina J. Gardner '82, president of the Democratic Club, wore a t-shirt with Ronald Reagan's portrait behind bars and had tears in her eyes. "Why is it that our leaders always give their best speeches after they've lost?" she asked mournfully...
David S. Solomon, '81 Anderson's Massachusetts state coordinator said yesterday, "I hope Harvard decides to vote with its conscience and not with fear." Nina J. Gardner '82, president of the Democatic Club and a Carter supporter said yesterday, "I think the national election will go to Reagan, so I'm not too happy...
...seemingly worthless old wreck that may turn out to be the most precious find of all. The ship, discovered two years ago in 30 ft. of clear water 60 miles north of Haiti, is, according to a growing number of scholars, Christopher Columbus' Pinta, sister ship to the Nina and the flagship Santa Maria, which is believed to have sunk in a hurricane, eight years after the discovery of North America in 1492. Frick and his partner hope to verify that theory by raising the galleon intact - a six-month process they will begin next month...