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...They scour the trade newspapers for notices of auditions. The more fortunate have union memberships that get them past guarded doors. The rest try to fib their way in or, if less bold, wait for "open calls." Known as "cattle calls," they may be publicity stunts. But for an unknown, they may be the only hope...
...last lab in the course was the first chance I ever had to do real science the way the big boys do. They give you a mixture of two unknown chemicals and say, "identify them." Of course they lead you by the hand but having to figure out what to do and how to do it was a real challenge. It meant something to be able to think on my own and not just follow the directions in a lab manual...
...unknown but sizable share of Hart's support comes from people who are along mainly for the excitement of the ride. It was certainly not the Senator's defense policies, for example, that won over Nancy Tosado, a mother of three from Huntsville, Ala. Says she: "It's been love at first sight since last Monday. That's it, nothing else...
Unlike Aleshkovsky, Sergei Dovlatov, 42, was a virtual unknown in his homeland. His first work since he emigrated in 1978 is The Invisible Book, published by Ardis Press in Ann Arbor, Mich., a small publishing house that specializes in Russian literature. Currently one of the most visible writers in exile, Dovlatov is a regular contributor of fiction to The New Yorker. Last fall a collection of short pieces, The Compromise, was published by Knopf. The tales are conspicuously devoid of the anger, overt and covert, that characterizes many émigrés' writing about their native country; Dovlatov...
Solzhenitsyn, meanwhile, rarely strays from the 50-acre estate in rural Vermont that he bought eight years ago because it reminded him of his beloved Russia. How the author of the magisterial The Gulag Archipelago is faring as a creative writer is unknown. All the works he has published since his deportation from the Soviet Union ten years ago have been either books completed before his exile, like the powerful memoir The Oak and the Calf, or speeches and articles of a political nature, like his sententious Warning to the West. In addition, he has revised many of his earlier...