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Baryshniknov is not the first prominent defector to receive feelers from Soviet officials about returning. Last week Ballerina Natalia Makarova got a similar offer from Grigorovich. The Soviets have also approached Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Novelist Vasily Aksyonov and Theater Director Yuri Lyubimov. Grigorovich noted that there is a new "atmosphere of openness" in the Soviet Union. Said he: "We now have a wise leader who is loved by the whole country...
M.F.K. (for Mary Frances Kennedy) Fisher is the grande dame of American food writers. Her passion for cuisine, conveyed with a novelist's supple prose in 17 books published since 1937, inspired a host of other writers to take up the craft of food criticism. One such is TIME's critic, who recently visited Fisher, now 78, in California's Sonoma Valley. Her report...
Then one day a letter arrived from novelist John Barth asking her to come to Johns Hopkins and study with him, which she did. A friend, it turns out, had sent some of her work to him. "That was the first idea I had that my stories were of any interest. It was very exciting. I thought it was a mistake--this letter over what seemed to me journal, a girl's diary, and not conceivably of interest to anyone...
...World War I founders of today's major spy networks did not think that big. Forerunners of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and MI5 were tight little units of upper-class amateurs. Ex-Operative David Cornwell, better known as Novelist John le Carre, offers a few bitter words on the subject: "The Empire may be crumbling; but within our secret elite, the clean-limbed tradition of English power would survive. We believe in nothing but ourselves...
Arriving in 1961 in India, they persuaded Novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to write their scripts, and Jhabvala, 59, an English-educated German married to an Indian, has worked on almost all their pictures, Maurice being a rare exception. The team's reputation was established with their second film, Shakespeare Wallah. The story of a troupe of English actors traveling across India, the film was made on a budget of $80,000, small even by Indian standards. The modest renown established by that film was nearly lost by a subsequent series of almost perversely maladroit efforts, including The Guru, Bombay Talkie...