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...door since he reportedly suffered a stroke five weeks ago. Making his second public appearance in nine days, the Soviet President stood for 1 ½ hours on the reviewing stand atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square to watch the annual May Day parade. Wearing a gray overcoat and fedora as protection against a drizzling rain, the 75-year-old leader looked wan and weary as he waved weakly at the tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who marched by carrying banners, artificial flowers, red flags and posters bearing his portrait. After the nationally televised ceremonies, some Western correspondents glimpsed...
...written in two languages, he has translated the works of others, he has translated his own works, and he has seen his own works translated by others. Even in this essay, however, Nabokov exudes a conceited pedantry, inventing some silly translations of names and titles. Gogol's story "The Overcoat," for example, becomes "The Carrick." Memoirs from a Mousehold, rather than Notes from Underground. And the nickname of Prince Stepan Rkadyevich Oblonsky. One cannot help but wonder whether Nabokov is more concerned with shock value than accuracy...
...arches, television crews set up their equipment on priceless rugs. Then a top Gaddafi aide, sporting a natty pinstripe suit under immaculate Arab robes, announced that the interview had been canceled. The presumed reason: the media-wise Gaddafi, who appeared, briefly, wearing a European-cut suit with a British overcoat flung over his shoulders, realized that the crisis in Poland had pushed him off the front pages and evening news broadcasts in Europe and America...
...audience, although he remains invisible to the other characters. Willy implores the ghost, Willy's older brother. "Ben, what's the secret to success? Did I do something wrong?" James Bohnen plays Ben's phantom with such presence one feels like reaching out and touching his huge tweed overcoat as he roams around the aisles in the audience. He replies repeatedly, "Willy, when I was 17, I went into the jungle. When I was 21, I came out. And damned if I wasn't rich. Diamonds." Willy has repeated this and other formulas to himself throughout his life ever since...
...Crimson came back. The Black man in the overcoat and a newly arrived kid in a New York Jets sweatshirt watched as Scott McCabe reversed his field and scampered down to the Cornell three...