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Anna enters Dostoevsky's apartment house as a stranger, and the world she encounters has a meaning only insofar as it has been infused with the life of Dostoevsky's art. As a young girl she had read his novels cloistered in the bushes outside her parents' home until they were snatched away by her older sister. She is in awe of the eminent writer, and at first he is equally uncomfortable in front of her. He must complete The Gambler in order to pay off debts left him by the death of his brother, and he has decided...
...time government officials had reluctantly acknowledged Scott's report, he was already busy trying to penetrate the secrecy that enshrouds Franco. He later joined Photographer Eddie Adams for an exclusive photo session with the Generalissimo's hand-picked successor, Prince Juan Carlos. The Prince is no stranger to Scott, who, when he began his first tour in Spain in 1966, found that even then one of the major issues was the problem of succession...
...wear short skirts or revealing shirts, but I got raped almost five weeks ago early in the morning at my bedside by some stranger who broke in. Who do men think they...
Lurie has set herself the task of focusing your curiosity on a stranger. Since the subject lacks initial interest, the style is crucial. Sometimes Lurie fails to realize that the punch line of a memory is easier to deal with if you were there, and her reflections are smothered by commonplace observations and a chummy attitude toward Lang. She doesn't come through with the kind of technique that gets around your indifference to, say, Gorey's insomnia, often enough: "I went upstairs. Ted had been up for hours he said. 'I don't really like sleeping lately,' he apologized...
There's no denying the fact, however, that Wixted is the main man for Penn, and that without him, the Quakers' chances of winning today are quite slim. Stranger things have happened, though Last night, for example, there was this guy masquerading as Dave Schulz, the Philadelphia Flyers' bad boy, who kept hitting everyone over the head with a real hockey stick while yelling "April Fools...