Word: orchard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Fleet Street. It was not a bad year. But old-timers agreed that this year's fodder for the gullible did not measure up to the 1957 classic, when BBC TV had viewers believing they were watching footage of peasants busily harvesting pasta from spaghetti trees in an orchard on a Swiss-Italian farm...
...good story bears retelling, and the one about the family Kennedy is among the best. It has the elements and sweep of 19th century literature: great expectations, war and peace and, in recent years, the whiff of a cherry orchard. In their 1984 book The Kennedys, Peter Collier and David Horowitz describe a Thanksgiving at Hyannis that had taken place two years before. After dinner, Rose, then 93, gathered her strength to address the remnants of her tribe. "I want you all to remember," said the frail matriarch, "that you are not just Kennedys, you are Fitzgeralds...
...Noises Off, a slapstick send-up of British sex comedy, and Benefactors, a regretful recollection of the relations between two young professional couples. Wild Honey marries the wry and the rowdy strains in Frayn's writing and at the same time prefigures Chekhov's later plays, notably The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya and The Seagull. The joys this collaboration offers, however, are as much visceral as literary. In chronicling the tomfoolery of a village intellectual, half charmer, half malcontent, Wild Honey provides nonstop bawdy laughter followed by a silencing leap into the abyss...
...ghetto / streets. With her felt-tip pens and knowledgeable left hand, Bidemmi gives those scenes an optimistic glow, heightened by a metaphor: cherry pits. Everyone in the neighborhood, including a pet parrot, eats cherries. The seeds are scattered in the hope that one day there will be a whole orchard on Bidemmi's block, with harvest enough, says the last rainbow illustration, to feed everyone...
...lives and works of Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, subjects of other Henri Troyat biographies, Chekhov's belong to the 20th century, an age of fretful spirits and melancholy skepticism. These impulses guide his hundreds of stories, his theatrical masterpieces (The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard) and especially his letters. "You ask me what life is," he wrote his wife shortly before dying of tuberculosis in 1904. "That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know...