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...film, he compared photographs and paintings depicting Tolstoy to show the differences between the two mediums...
Listen to enough marriage plaints, and you may conclude that Tolstoy was wrong: unhappy families really are all alike. They argue over sex, money, the kids, the lack of free time. After five years of marriage, Tom, 39, and Suzanne, 35, sparred with increasing frequency and rancor over the usual "spending" issues. He thought she was spending too much money; she thought he wasn't spending enough time with her and their two children. The counseling they tried didn't help. "It just made the situation artificial," says Suzanne. She's the verbal one; Tom, from a military family...
...megabytes Average amount of information produced annually per person on the planet?equivalent to 1,333 copies of Tolstoy's War and Peace
...slice of cultural history (such lectors, paid for by the workers, were common in Cuban-American factories until the early 1930s, when the owners banned them as subversive influences) and a warm-spirited tribute to the transformative power of art--in this case, the novel chosen by the lector, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina...
...each of her appearances. The chorus of minions are sufficiently alien and demonic, although it was impossible to hear any of their dialogue, which was spoken in overlapping snippets or in not-quite-unison. The play also includes a few addresses by a bizarrely dressed figure who quotes Tolstoy and Shakespeare to the audience; as far as I could tell, these interruptions had little to do with the action...