Word: borises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The painting is the work of our crash-cover champ, Artist Boris Chaliapin. He needed some swirling ticker tape to reproduce in the background, and so we sent downstairs to the Merrill Lynch office in our building for a few strands of cellulose acetate. The reply we got was typical...
That enthusiasm has to hold you through two rather unexciting scenes, but then comes "C'est Magnifique," and then a well-choreographed "Quadrille." And so it goes, up and down, all evening. Happily, the downs are not serious, and the ups are frequently glorious. A notable up is a very...
Can it be that cold in Russia? Are their snowdrops really blue? Ours, Galanthus nivalis, are definitely white. The flowers shown by Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin are known to us as Scilla sibirica, or Siberian squill.
Creative Schizophrenia. Zhenya was 19 when Stalin died. In revulsion from political themes, he sought refuge in love lyrics. The conservative critics who had effusively praised his first, insipid book of verse savaged his second, making the book an overnight hit and Zhenya a national name. Ever since, says Evtushenko...
In most of his roles, De Paolis has only a few minutes to establish a character. But he does so with such skill (and without exaggerated theatrics) that even famous tenors and sopranos find themselves in danger of being upstaged in his presence. De Paolis seems able to play any...