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...shorts have been selling like hotcakes," Frank Wright, group manager of the stationery department at Bloomingdale's in New York, said this week. "They're the third-best selling item in our entire gift catalog," he added...
...crucial breakthrough occurred when Frank Wright, the buyer at Bloomingdale's, fell in love with the boxers, Rohr said. Wright placed an order for 5000 shorts, and Seat-of-the-Pants was suddenly in the driver's seat...
...Democrats also re-elected Texan Representative Jim Wright to his second term as the House majority leader. Wright and O'Neill said they would reappoint Rep. John Brademas of Indiana as Democratic whip and Illinois Rep. Dan Rostenkowski as chief deputy whip...
Hellman's play depicts the plight of two schoolteachers, Martha Dobie (Jenny Cornuelle) and Karen Wright (Becky Stone), whose school for girls is threatened by the spitefulness of a spoiled, self-centered child who defies the women's sincere efforts to understand her resentment. When the child, Mary Tilford (Patrice Dabrowski), receives a just punishment for a series of rule infractions, she fabricates a tale that the schoolteachers are lesbians, convincing her grandmother (Cynthis Weinrich) to withdraw her and the other girls from the school. The teachers countersuit for slander fails, in part because Martha's aunt (Amy Aquino) refuses...
Though one was mainly a novelist and storyteller and the other a born play wright, Turgenev is sometimes regarded as a precursor of Chekhov. But even the similarities between the two great Russians are deceptive. Chekhov drew a bitingly comic profile of the follies that his provincial characters are prey to; yet he shared their pain. Turgenev fired off comic volleys that riddle his provincial characters' vanity and pretension; but when his people bleed, he casts a cold and worldly eye upon the scene. In Chekhov, longing is the arrow of love, usually un requited; in Turgenev, idle fantasy...