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Perhaps as incendiary an example of this revisionism as Brustein has ever offered is the A.R.T.'s current Three Sisters, a production by Rumanian Director Andrei Serban that transforms the customarily lugubrious Chekhov portrait of a doomed family into a knock about farce. Actors pout like children on a...
Haig's letter of resignation was the epitome of bad taste. He implied that the foreign policy of the U.S. is going to hell in a handbasket. Haig is and has been arrogant and petulant, both as an Army general and as Secretary of State. He resigned in a...
I wish to comment on Professor Jorge Dominguez's petulant but understandable protest against being telephoned at home by students and colleagues. His complaint is fair. If he has indeed made it clear that his privacy should be respected in this way, then violations of that injunction are rude. Perhaps...
Overseeing Apple's growth has kept Jobs too busy to spend the millions he earned when the company went public 14 months ago. He took a few days off last year to go backpacking in Yosemite National Park. Except for some Japanese woodprints and a Maxfield Parrish painting, his...
This was the rationale behind the recent publication of Nabokov's college lectures on Russian literature. Volume One of these notes, last year's Christmas special, dealt with English, French, and German masterpieces. It turns out that Nabokov knew a great deal more about Russian literature than about any other...