Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...architect's widow perceived Stalin's daughter as a mystical representative, possibly even the reincarnation, of her own daughter, who had died in an auto accident in 1946. Mrs. Wright, a disciple of the Russian-born mystic Georgi Gurdjieff, was spellbound by some coincidences between the living and the dead. Her daughter, by an earlier marriage in Russia, had also been named Svetlana; moreover, she had been born in Georgia, the region from which Svetlana Alliluyeva's father hailed. Somehow it followed in Mrs. Wright's mind that Stalin's daughter should marry the first Svetlana's widower, William Wesley...
Svetlana promptly went along with Mrs. Wright's desires: within days she was calling Taliesin West's matriarch Mother. She also fell in love with the distinguished-looking, 6-ft. 4-in. Peters, then 57. Soon Svetlana was pressing for an early wedding, and less than three weeks after her arrival in Arizona, she and Peters were married. Mrs. Wright was heard to exult, "Now I can say again, 'Svetlana...
Much of Svetlana's anger came to center on Mrs. Wright, who ran the residents' lives at Taliesin West with what she proudly called "invisible discipline." Mrs. Wright decided what they wore, what they discussed at dinner and whether they should have children. "I detested her power over others," Svetlana said. "The lady bore such a resemblance to my father's worst qualities that I shrank from...
Svetlana's hostility was viewed a shade differently by her new brother-in- law, S.I. Hayakawa, who is married to Wes Peters' sister. "She and Mrs. Wright were like two empresses in the same empire," the semanticist and former U.S. Senator recollects. Overpowered, Svetlana tried to persuade Peters to leave Taliesin West, where he had worked since 1932 as Wright's disciple and chosen successor. Peters temporized, and after 20 months of marriage, Svetlana stormed out, cursing Mrs. Wright and all that she represented with a wrath that recalled Stalin's. Taliesin West, "with all its horrible modern architecture," Svetlana...
...strong sense of old India. The Banerjee home and garden, in the center of the overcrowded city, is in fact extremely private, surrounded by a high wall." In Sydney, TIME'S Tim Dare talked to Actress Judy Davis about Lean's "volatile" directorial style. Reporter John Wright tracked down more than a dozen of Lean's past and present colleagues in England, including Peggy Ashcroft and Alec Guinness. In New York City, Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka spoke with Producer Sam Spiegel and Director Michael Powell and landed a rare interview with Katharine Hepburn, whose friendship with Lean...