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Word: cowish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highest praise goes to Irina Kupchenko's Sonya. I remember at my first viewing of the film feeling that this Sonya was too young and pretty to be Chekhov's Sonya: I envisioned a cowish sort of girl--hardworking, trusting, basically provincial and unstimulating. The Sonya in the film is so captivating that I couldn't imagine why Astrov did not immediately fall in love with...

Author: By Barbara A. Slavin, | Title: A Surprising Soviet Chekhov | 8/4/1972 | See Source »

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