Word: borises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oscars come a lot easier than Nobel Prizes, so don't be misled when the little statues make their rounds on Academy Awards night. Carlo Ponti's production of David Lean's film of Boris Pasternak's novel should be avoided at all costs.
The whole production shows unerring taste. Boris Kaufman's subdued color photography evokes nostalgia the way old snapshots do, pulling the mind back to floppy hats and turbans and the horrors of early modern decor. Lumet skillfully sustains the drama's reminiscent mood without losing his amused detachment...
Died. Boris Nicolaevsky, 78, renowned Kremlinologist, a Russian-born Social Democrat who in 1940, after 18 years of exile in Europe following expulsion by the Bolsheviks, arrived in the U.S. to write more than a dozen works on Soviet life, such as Forced Labor in Soviet Russia (1947), for which...
The people who were working on this week's cover story could return the compliment with sincerity. For Artist Boris Chaliapin, the assignment brought warm memories of family: his father, the great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin, was a close friend of Rubinstein's in Europe many years ago...
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. In Director David Lean's literate, magnificently visualized version of Boris Pasternak's novel, the romance of Zhivago (Omar Sharif) and his Lara (Julie Christie) dominates a vast canvas of war and social upheaval.