Word: borises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doctor Zhivago. Behind the opaque, frosted window pane of a room in Moscow, a candle's flame slowly melts a circle through which the camera peers at a young man reading a letter. As he absorbs terrible revelations about the girl he loves, the circle becomes a poetic, crystaline...
Christmas carols dating from the period during which most of the paintings were done provide an appropriate musical background for the exhibition. Another feature is a recorded lecture on Renaissance art The Christmas Story will last through Jan. 2; like all the exhibits it is free and open daily. The...
Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin, who at a tender age survived the Russian Revolution, does not claim any military history-except what he records at the end of his brush. He found General Johnson a most engaging subject, but was dismayed by the fact that the general scheduled the sittings for...
This venture begins in appropriately gruesome style with the beheading of the late Sax Rohmer's durable archcriminal, who has already survived the perils of 14 books and four feature films, the last made in 1932. As Fu, "cool, callous, brilliant . . . the most evil and dangerous man in the...
Penkovsky's memoir-smuggled out of Russia on one of the secret routes that carried Abram Tertz's and Boris Pasternak's works westward-is gritty and gripe-ridden in its condemnation of Moscow's upper-echelon morals, and filled with "revelations" presumably intended to compromise...