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...consider Russians shiftless and lazy. While their style of work may be puzzling to outsiders, it has a logic all its own, rooted in the peasant's seasonal cycle of activities, when months of idleness gave way to short but intensive periods of planting and harvest. As novelist Leo Tolstoy once explained, "The Russians harness their horses very slowly, but they ride with great speed." Russian people have little patience for daily chores and fixed schedules. They prefer to get things done in sudden bursts of activity. This style of work came to be known in the Soviet period...
...BOTTOM LINE: Tolstoy's masterpiece becomes a stage equivalent to TV's Masterpiece Theater...
...beginner, deftly focuses the story on Anna's forced choice between romantic love for Vronsky and maternal love for her child by her husband Karenin. But Kellogg nearly wrecks the enterprise with lyrics so blandly generic that they convey hardly any specifics of character -- especially frustrating when the source, Tolstoy's novel, provides some of the most vivid characters in world literature...
...modern parent could turn Tolstoy's famous maxim on its head and say, "No families, happy or unhappy, are alike." But as Judge Gangel-Jacob ponders the evidence to determine whether Mia is a fit mother and Woody any kind of a father, she may conclude that the Sesame Street brood of Farrow's is like every other family. Only more of them. And more...
...people of what is still the largest country on earth are playing Russian roulette with history, producing a dizzying rush of events that defy comprehension. Tatyana Tolstaya, the great-grandniece of Leo Tolstoy, helps us make human sense of the game and the gamblers...