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Officers of Hasty Pudding presented Travolta with the traditional "pudding pot" before last night's opening show of "Serf's Up," and he told the black tie audience that the award "came as a complete surprise...
...covetous dreams, then mocks us as we press our noses against the window glass. What unimaginable delight made the pretty lady swirl and smile as the photographer snapped her picture? What season of debauchery brought the sulky thrust to this beauty's lower lip? At what groveling serf does the fine young lord in the Ferrari scowl with such contempt? Nothing; none; at no one; these glossy apparitions are as hollow as soap bubbles. The photographer has frozen moments that never were ? yet they tease us because their reality is beyond question, while our own stored moments, caught...
...mystical cult in the latter part of the 19th century. Illiterate, impoverished and much abused, the peasants were known for their generous nature and a predilection for violence that sometimes led them to burn down the manor house, or even murder the squire, as happened to Dostoyevsky's serf-owning father. To foreigners they seemed a dismal, squalid lot-the men with their scraggly beards and hair, the women with their inevitable head scarves. Though the peasants were in fact a rich repository of folklore and folk art, intellectuals invested them with other qualities. The populists believed them...
...which a goodly number of the company mimic the balletic prancing of Thoroughbreds. The equine hero is Strider (Gerald Hiken), whose bloodlines must somewhere have tangled with those of Harpo Marx. Strider is a piebald gelding and, because of that, very infra dig. Metaphorically, he is a Russian serf in a land where serfdom, at all unhappy times, seems endemic. Yet all men are serfs of some sort, as Tolstoy points out. And every serf, like every dog, does have his glorious days. For Strider, the first is a fling at love with a filly fatale (Pamela Burrell), an adventure...
...manifesto was signed by 110 Poles, some of them active in the 23-member Workers' Defense Committee. The committee was founded last year to support the hundreds of workers arrested in the strikes against food-price hikes. Last month, the group was renamed the Committee for the Serf-Defense of Society, or KSS. Among the prominent KSS members who put their names to the manifesto last week were Historians Jan Yosef Lipski and Adam Michnik and Sociologist Jacek Kuron-plus a group of workers who were amnestied partly because of pressure from...