Word: borises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Julia Child ought to stew TIME and Artist Boris Chaliapin. Her likeness resembles the First Apparition in Shakespeare's Macbeth. And everyone knows what a beastly recipe the Weird Sisters used to concoct that aberration!
Sir: You can do any pictorial-art interpretation of Johnson, Goldwater, Kennedy and Nixon that you want, but you and Boris Chaliapin owe Julia Child an apology. Julia Child is sacred.
Leonard Bernstein explains "What Is a Mode?" as he conducts the season's premiere concert. A mode is a scale, and for illustration the orchestra will play Debussy's Fetes, the Polonaise from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and the Danzon from Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free...
Artist Boris Chaliapin went to Cambridge to paint the cover portrait, and according to Julia it was the "beginning of a life friendship." After a sitting Boris would trade paintbrushes for Julia's pots and pans, and concoct some of his favorite Russian recipes: shashlik and a peasant soup...
Opening credits label the enterprise "after" Shakespeare. It is possible that Boris Pasternak's translation aims at rough dramatic paraphrase of the sort Robert Lowell calls "imitation." In any case, it undoubtedly stands on its own merits, none of which, unfortunately, will be intelligible to any but Slavic majors.