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...characteristically by a running description of their ashtrays, water glasses, and pencils. On another visit to the U.N. (one of her favorite haunts) she examines the employee bulletin board and discovers such gems as "meeting of the U.N. Folk Dance Club on folk dances of France, with Mme. Olga Tarassova," then retires to the cafeteria, where she meets a young Indian eating prune yoghurt and listening to a baseball game via transistor radio. "Two to one, Kansas City," he says gloomily...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Lillian Ross's Collection Of Talk Stories Sparkles | 5/12/1966 | See Source »

...more perfect performance of the part. He played him with humor, and yet with sympathy, played him so quietly and so humanly that desire for reform became more than understandable, and the sudden forgetfulness of him in the last act seemed all the more tragic. The Nastya of Alla Tarassova was made of less common clay than that of Pauline Lord's. She was a prostitute, she was sunk to the extremities of the life seen in the play, but there was still quality of beauty, and appeal to her. With the Moscow Art Theatre, as one expected, the Luka...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/15/1923 | See Source »

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