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...work in the West, Lyubimov had cruelly been granted his wish. Since then he has staged plays and operas throughout Europe and in Israel, ranging from a Rigoletto in Florence, in which the heroine sang an aria while wafting through the air on a swing, to an expressionistic version of Pushkin's Little Tragedies in both Stockholm and Bologna. But his career, however thriving, involves painful artistic detachment, akin to a nuclear scientist's working through a glove...
Lyubimov was inspired to stage his original Moscow version, he says, by reading the essays of schoolchildren, an extract from one of which provides the coda to the show: "So, Raskolnikov was right to murder the old woman. Too bad he got caught." In Lyubimov's view, the child was echoing the amoral views of a teacher and, in turn, the state. An attentive father who travels everywhere accompanied by his second wife Katya, a Hungarian, and son Piotr, 7, Lyubimov will next mount an adaptation of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard...
...first time in the short history of the labyrinthine White House scandal, a plausible version of events was taking shape, based on sworn testimony and Administration documents. According to the latest scenario, the Administration's weapons deals with Iran were a straightforward arms-for- hostages swap. Reagan's repeated claim that the transactions were an overture to moderate factions in the Iranian government was no more than a rationale concocted by CIA Director William Casey. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North was instrumental in persuading the President to proceed; North's boss, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, was aware that Iran...
These were some of the disclosures in a Senate Intelligence Committee draft report based on the four weeks of hearings the panel held before Christmas. Although committee members voted last week against releasing their findings, an earlier version, like so many other important documents in Washington, was leaked before the week was out. Despite the report's damning implication that the President either did not know or did not comprehend fully what his staff was up to, the White House was eager for the document's release. The primary reason: the preliminary investigation found no evidence linking the President...
...There are in fact contradictions and gaps in the draft version that was leaked. But the report does clarify some of the details of how the Iran- contra affair evolved. In December 1985, for instance, several of Reagan's top aides argued against sending U.S. arms to Iran. But, the report says, North may have won Reagan over with a memo warning, "If the program is terminated, then the hostages will...