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...second set, Wimbledon fans witnessed one of the oddest turning points in the history of Centre Court. Evert lofted a desperate return high over the net, and Navratilova leaped to kill it. But what ought to have been an easy smash wasn't: her high stroke completely missed the ball, which plopped softly behind her for Evert's point. Navratilova covered her face with her hand, utterly embarrassed by the humiliation of fanning in Centre Court. But rather than crumbling, as she had so often in the past, she roared back. As she put it after the match...
...serious illness is a prison from which there are only two exits: recovery or death. Arthur Kopit's new play Wings is a message smuggled out from that terrifying Gulag inhabited by a stroke victim. At the beginning of this excellent production now visiting Manhattan's Public Theater from the Yale Repertory Theater, an elderly woman sits reading in an easy chair, a clock ticking at her side. Suddenly the clock stops, the lamp goes out, and there are loud noises. Mrs. Stilson (Constance Cummings) has had a stroke...
...once a stunt pilot, realizes the truth: her wings have failed her. "As near as I can figure," she says, "I was in my brain and crashed." Slowly, like a child, she learns the words for ev eryday things and slowly recovers until, at the end, she suffers another stroke and escapes for good...
...other master stroke by which Chekhov gets the audience to be his collaborator lies in his intuitive understanding that the only undying love is unrequited love. In Uncle Vanya, Vanya (William Hutt) is desperately smitten with Elena (Martha Henry), wife of the crabbed Professor Serebriakov (Max Helpmann), who is many years her senior. Not out of any binding moral scruples, Elena treats Vanya's advances with lacerating indifference. Sonya (Marti Maraden), Vanya's niece, has adored Dr. Astrov (Brian Bedford) for six years, and he has never been aware of it for six seconds. Astrov in turn lusts...
...cars, oil for the pumps of Sweden " We are leaving the defensive role Wand going on the offensive," declared Pehr Gyllenhammar, president of Volvo, Sweden's troubled giant (1977 sales: $3.6 billion). On that confident note, he announced last week a bold and imaginative reorganization that in one stroke will supply the automaker with urgently needed cash, give Sweden access to North Sea oilfields and bring in Norway as an energetic junior partner in a new binational corporation. The Norwegians, eager to use their oil riches to develop high-technology industries, called Gyllenhammar's proposal "the deal...