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...starlet may think that August Strindberg is a hot new agent, but Streep played Miss Julie at Vassar. Beginning her professional stage career in New York only four years ago, she conquered prized roles in Shakespeare (Measure for Measure, Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew), Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard) and Brecht-Weill (Happy End), as well as in works by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. This repertory training came to Meryl because she was ready for it; her education went on in public, but critics and audiences did the learning. Director Arvin Brown expresses what threatens to become...
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Work was the same for everybody else in the little village, Moras En Valloire. Next to our peach orchard was a small tobacco field, where a father and son worked each day from early morning until late at night. From where we picked peaches we could see them, bent over like tumbled-down scarecrows, pulling the weeds out by hand as they slowly moved up and down the rows...
...LITTLE LIKE Lopahin buying the cherry orchard--nobody yippeed. When the Corporation named Robert S. Brustein to head the Loeb Drama Center, most students nodded, a few smiled, many winced. I thought it was cause for celebration, but suspicion of Brustein had become fashionable in many Harvard theatrical circles. He was coming to take their time away, to seize their space, to cook them and eat them for breakfast, as he told a gathering at the Signet Society the night before his appointment was announced. He didn't get many laughs...
...seediness and poverty of this street scene is a far cry from the calendar-picture China: ruddy-cheeked girls picking ripe fruit in an Eden-like orchard, smiling, neatly dressed workers in a brightly lit industrial plant. But this small alley in the provincial city of Nanning (pop. 500,000), capital of the Kwangsi Autonomous Region bordering North Viet Nam, is typical of China's overall appearance...