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'Anna'
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'Anna'
BRIEFING
Sunday, April 8, 2001
Long story short
Literally, "Anna Karenina" is not light reading, weighing in at
around 900 pages. Figuratively, the story speeds along. Cliffs Notes
can tell "Anna Karenina" in three pages -- 35 chapters alone are
dispatched in two paragraphs, thank you very much.
But the author himself beat that. Irwin Weil, a Northwestern
University professor, recounts that Tolstoy's editor wanted to
summarize the politically touchy en...
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'Anna Karenina' a tale always in fashion
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; `Anna Karenina' a tale always in fashion By CAROL DEPTOLLA of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, April 8, 2001 We haven't seen this much of Anna Karenina since she was on the party circuit in 1870s Russia. "Anna Karenina," Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece, is popping up like cleavage at a 19th-century
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Arts: The girl can't help it... Graphic sex. Contemporary emotions. No bonnets. Channel 4's new production of Anna Karenina tells a tale of intense sexual passion. But would Tolstoy recognise it?
The Independent - London
; Channel 4 wanted a "no hats" policy for its version of Anna Karenina. "The idea is that no one wears hats in contemporary Britain, so viewers will be able to relate better to these characters if they're generally bare-headed," explains Matthew Bird, the producer of the new four-part drama, who is
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Sex, sex and more sex, and very little sense Channel 4's `Anna Karenina' has lost the plot, says Deborah Orr
The Independent - London
; Bearing in mind that the film-makers' intention was to "update" Anna Karenina, Channel 4's marketing department certainly plumped for a curiously retrograde advertising line. Commanded by the publicity to watch Channel 4's series with a view to weighing up whether Anna Karenina is a "tragic
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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IN PBS'S EMBRACE, UPDATED `ANNA KARENINA' REMAINS PURE.(Television)(Review)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; LIKE THE PRICE of western electricity these days, the price of happiness depends a lot on how much one has in one's reservoir, and how quickly one uses it up. Anna Karenina, the tragic figure in one of the great pieces of Western literature, would seem to have plenty. Comfortable and cared for, she
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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MOVIE OF 'ANNA KARENINA' A REAL MISTAKE.(LIVING)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; Byline: Robert Denerstein, Scripps Howard News Service The other day I was in a bookstore leafing through Russian novels I'd like to read again. Certainly ''Crime and Punishment ...
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