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...radically different from that of his fastidious, poker-faced predecessor, Andrei Gromyko. But like his boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shevardnadze is a shrewd, tough-minded politician with steel beneath his smile. Some Sovietologists last summer assumed that Shevardnadze, with his minimal foreign policy experience, would serve simply as a stand-in while Gorbachev acted as his own chief diplomat. Yet Shevardnadze has shown a readiness to take charge of the Foreign Ministry with the assertiveness that has been a hallmark of his career...
...through imitation. As has been noted by several reviewers, a few characters in The House of The Spirits bear more than passing resemblance to creations of Marquez. Rosa the Beautiful, the daughter of Senator del Valle who dies before her marriage to poor but proud Esteban Trueba, is a stand-in for Remedios Buendia of One Hundred Years of Solitude. And Allende's description of the huge Trueba mansion in decay reads like a passage from The Autumn of the Patriarch...
...this has a familiar ring it is because Allende has self-consciously modeled her novel on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, a four-generation family chronicle set in a nonexistent town. Allende's Rosa the Beautiful is obviously a stand-in for Garcia Marquez's Remedios the Beauty, famed for her spectacular ascension to heaven with the family laundry. The job-hopping Nicolas in The House of the Spirits doubles for One Hundred Years' mad inventor, Jose Arcadio Buendia, who strives to manufacture the philosophers' stone and photograph...
DIED. Rudd Weatherwax, 77, flamboyant owner and trainer of the original Lassie and six subsequent Wonder Dogs; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In 1940 he and his brother Frank took on an unwanted collie named Pal, which was selected first as a stand-in and then as star of Lassie Come Home (1943). Weatherwax also trained Asta for the Thin Man movies and Daisy for the Blondie series. Devoted to his charges, he kept the cremated remains of bygone Lassies, once vowing, "When I finally go, I'm gonna take those urns and bury them with...
...actors retreat backstage to concoct some appropriate sketches, then return with the results. Afterward, cast and director refine the best bits into formal scenes for the next revue. Tonight the audience is asked to suggest professions. "Psycho killer!" someone shouts. O.K., you asked for it. Dan Castellaneta, a stand-in that night, comes back as a bellowing lunatic, confronting an unfortunate career counselor: "Those people aren't dead! They just went swimming! Without their limbs...