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...public rarely gets the chance to hear Bill Murray reciting lines like "When thou must home to shades of underground," or Christopher Reeve reading from the works of Emerson and Keats...
After the war and the deluge of his fame, Lawrence stunned friends by changing his identity and going underground. As John Hume Ross, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force. When his cover was blown by a London newspaper ('UNCROWNED KING' AS PRIVATE SOLDIER), Lawrence was forced out of the R.A.F. and subsequently enrolled in the army as T.E. Shaw. In a letter written soon after this move, he noted his divided state of mind and suggested that "perhaps there's a solution to be found in multiple personality...
Dropping the Political Ball: During a memorial service for radical activist Abbie Hoffman at his boyhood temple in Worcester Wednesday, former Boston Celtic Bill Walton recalled meeting Hoffman while he was underground, on the run from a possible life imprisonment for cocaine trafficking charges...
...long-suppressed and now acclaimed production of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground at Moscow's Theater for Young Spectators, the withdrawn and embittered central character repeatedly pushes with all his might against the immovable proscenium arch at the side of the stage. The gesture is an apt visual metaphor not only for a melancholy nobody's passion to smash the barriers of loneliness but also for the yearning of the whole Moscow drama world to break down the confines of habit and tradition. Everywhere one goes in the theater these days, the same artistic self-criticism is heard: there...
...Sinyavsky, and prepare to be astonished. As a literary critic in Moscow, Sinyavsky for years secretly published bitter, moving short stories in the West under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. When Soviet officials discovered Tertz's real identity in 1965, they arrested Sinyavsky, along with his friend Yuli Daniel, another underground writer. Convicted of "anti-Soviet acts" in a celebrated trial that for the first time drew the world's attention to Moscow's dissident movement, Sinyavsky spent almost six years in a labor camp, Daniel five. Sinyavsky emigrated to Paris in 1973, and Soviet authorities reluctantly permitted him to return...