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Happily, the occasionally indelicate symbolism cannot ruin Jean-Claude van Itallie's sensitive, arresting new translation. He has dispensed with the halting speech patterns common to translations of Russian works, and has given the characters modern idiosyncrasies and sympathies. Masha's idiotic husband, Kulygin (Richard Grusin), says bumblingly to anyone who says a kind word about his wife. "Yes, of course, you're absolutely right. I love her very much, Masha. She's very nice." Masha calls her hated sister-in-law a "petit bourgeois bitch...
...moving to the left sharply or to the right sharply." Concurred Roger Mudd: "If I were Ronald Reagan reading these returns, I would probably stay the course." As the evening wore on, NBC's tone altered somewhat, but it never approached CBS's relish for Republican ruin...
...Then, too, he may have actively been trying to destroy himself. He chose a symmetrical end, after all. To be nabbed in Los Angeles, the city of the car, and of his youth. To have the coke discovered in a Chevy, the All-American machine. Finally, to risk the ruin of his career by means of a drug that for a certain social set may be said to have replaced the automobile as the national narcotic. No one not inside De Lorean's head can say for sure why he did what he did, and except for purposes...
Perhaps other Russian painters, unknown to the West, are busy boring and clicking like so many deathwatch beetles within the facade of idealist kitsch known as Soviet socialist realism. But it is hard to see how they could ruin it more thoroughly. K & M's paintings are not merely banal, but excruciatingly so, oily and inert, varnished so heavily that three-quarters of the surface is glare; the eye gropes for the cliches that lie embedded in them. The accretion becomes a kind of conceptual art, holding everything in quotation marks...
Flintstong, who has relatives in Buffalo, warned that naval traffic in the Great Lakes will "ruin the fishing there...