Word: borises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Triumph & Tension. A more impressive contribution to the Met's new season came later in the week with a Boris Godunov, orchestrated by Dmitry Shostakovich. In its 75-year history, Mussorgsky's roughhewn but powerfully felt work ("I lived on Boris and in Boris," the composer once said...
Thriller (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*Latest in the new crime series, hosted by Boris Karloff. This edition, starring Everett Sloane, Frank Silvera and Jay C. Flippen, is about an underground lawyer and his difficult relations with a narcotics syndicate boss.
The two other reminiscences, while not as good as Miss Halley's story, have their own particular and considerable virtues. Robert Hellman's In the Country is another tale which contrasts the old country (in this case Russia) with the new. The New York couples on a country hillside listen...
This presents a great opportunity for a glorification of the Soviet cause, but Kalatozov does not succumb. Instead, when the girls from the factory committee wave goodbye to Boris with promises to fulfill and overfulfill their production quotas, they are gently told to come off it. The film also reveals...
The acting of Tatyana Samoilova, who plays Veronica, is as subtle and effective as her face is beautiful. It is her existence which is demolished by the war; she loses her parents, and needing love desperately, is unfaithful to Boris. The story centers on her struggle to find something worth...