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Jane Avrich
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Tales From a Dubious Wonderland
By Jane Avrich •
Cat's Grin By Francois Maspero Translated by Nancy Amphoux Knopf; $16.95; 295 pages. A STORY THAT is "completely false and
Opinion
`Fire of My Loins'--With a Douse of Water
By Jane Avrich •
The Enchanter By Vladimir Nabokov G.P. Putnam's Sons; 127 pages; $16.95. D URING THE EARLY years of the Second World
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Awakening in India
By Jane Avrich •
U NDER THE HOT Indian sun nudges a huge elephant, lavishly decorated with bells, tassels, and colorful curlicues on its
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One Big Batty Family
By Jane Avrich •
A T THE ZOO, everybody likes the monkey house. The chimps clutch the bars and make faces; the orangutans lounge
Arts
Long Night
By Jane Avrich •
L ONG AND MORBID, Long Day's Journey Into Night deals with a family suffering from drug addiction, tuberculosis and failed
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Lacking Any Honor
By Jane Avrich •
R ICHARD NIXON has really gone off the deep end. In a new play by Donald Freed and Arnold M.