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...production of the play proved an enormous critical and commercial success, and led to the collaboration that established the Art Theater as one of the most prestigious in the world. It also inspired Chekhov to write his three greatest dramatic masterpieces. Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard...

Author: By Wendy L. Wall, | Title: Flying High | 5/6/1983 | See Source »

Inside a small farmhouse in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, eight Palestinian fighters warm themselves around an old kerosene heater. They have spent the afternoon training on a Katyusha rocket launcher that lies beneath crude camouflage in a nearby apple orchard. Most of these men are combat veterans who fled to the Bekaa Valley after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the bombing of West Beirut. Yet the war seems strangely irrelevant to their thinking. "First we will drive the enemy from Lebanon," declares a 20-year-old in a calm voice, "and then we will liberate Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Facing Drastic Choices | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

WHEN ANDREI SERBAN directed The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull at the New York Shakespeare Festival in the 1970s, he seemed content to rely on traditional interpretations of the Chekhov texts. With Three Sisters he has broken away, and it's not entirely a good thing...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: A Flighty Trio | 12/7/1982 | See Source »

...sauna. They have another house in Beverly Hills and an apartment in an East Side Manhattan hotel. In the summer of 1981, keeping their former house for the use of whichever daughters happened by, they moved across the river to a small, 1736 farmhouse. They have an apple orchard, a swimming pool, eleven acres of fields and woods, and a refinished barn used as a guesthouse and screening room. They have cats, dogs and an expensively renovated stable half an hour away that Paul swears he will have memorialized in an oil painting showing a huge hole into which beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Newman: Verdict on a Superstar | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...Replied Boiling: "We just can't take that." By Boiling's count, Reagan was offering to trade a $7 billion budget savings in delaying the tax cut for a $16.6 billion savings in COLA. That, O'Neill said later, was like "giving an apple for an orchard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summit That Failed | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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