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...filled with idealistic dreams of fraternal love and spontaneous world order. None of the painters in his circle were untouched by anarchist ideas, particularly those of Pyotr Kropotkin. Some, notably Maximilian Luce, were vigorous activists, marked down by the police. Signac was never that militant, but his best friend among critics, Felix Feneon, was always suspected (though this was never proved) of having helped carry out a deadly bomb attack on a fashionable Paris restaurant, Foyot's. Signac never hurt anyone, though he was right in the thick of the closest relationship between political and aesthetic radicalism that the 19th...
...Chubais was one of five co-authors who received $90,000 advances for a book on the history of privatization. Yeltsin promptly fired two of the writers, First Deputy Chief of Staff Alexander Kazakov and Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Boiko, and accepted the resignation of a third, Cabinet member Pyotr Mostovoi. Chubais also offered to resign, but Yeltsin, who reprimanded him, felt he was still needed to clean up the economic mess...
...Boston Ballet has chosen to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary season with the commemoration of the man who set a new standard for ballet music, the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Entranced by the "majesty, magic, and imagination" of Tchaikovsky's work, Artistic Director Bruce Marks has selected ballets for the 1993-94 season which feature the breadth and "dance-ability" of Tchaikovsky's "approachable" rhythms...
...owner's absence the bit players in the house have become mainstays, including Pyotr, the eternal student who was the drowned boy's tutor, and Dunyasha, the frazzled housemaid with her many suitors. The house about to undergo an even more major change: the beloved cherry orchard must be sold to pay the family's debts...
...wife Varya, played with appeal and sympathy by Miki Whittles. In her interpretation of Varya's sister Anya, Karen Phillips comes across as flaccid and boring. For the first scene, she inexplicably delivers her lines directly to the audience. This bland performance renders the affection of dire, serious Pyotr (Royal Miller) for Anya unlikely...