Word: boyars
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...Barvikha to unwind. You go there to experience life as it is lived by Russia's élite. This is where today's boyar and his 20-year-old girlfriend get facials and hydro-massages and sip lemon water in fluffy robes while having their toenails buffed. This is where you pay top-tier prices - say, $250 for a 21/2-hour treatment - simply to be with other members of Russia's ruling class...
...seems to be in a trance in the scenes in the church or when he is making grand proclamations. In Part II, his eyes are a sight to behold: they no longer dart from side to side, but stare resolutely straight on, offering us evil personified. To quell the boyar conspiracy, Ivan creates his secret police force, the "Oprichnina." The parallels between this medieval Russian epoque and the Stalinist Terror are obvious. It's not clear whether Eisenstein intended it to be this way or whether we are looking back with twentieth century hindsight at the parallels...
...main financing for the Bolshoi tour was actually supposed to come from Entertainment Corporation U.S.A., a subsidiary of a British firm. But as the deadline neared, the sponsors filed for bankruptcy and the whole tour seemed in jeopardy. To the rescue, like some plumed boyar galloping across the steppes, came Ara Oztemel, a Turkish-born Armenian American who heads an East- West trading corporation named Satra (and plays a hot saxophone on the side). And so the show could go on. But the Bolshoi leaders are aware that they still face a daunting challenge. "Our task is not to return...
...detail that helps explain motive and madness, Troyat finds the key to Ivan's character in the ruler's early life. The heir to the throne of Muscovy was orphaned at seven, and he grew up amid endless scheming by Russia's landed aristocracy, the boyars. "Observing the brutal treatment that grown men inflicted on their fellows, he made ready to imitate them by tormenting animals," writes Troyat. "Standing on the ramparts of the Kremlin fortress, he would whirl young dogs above his head and hurl them down to the courtyard to break their bones. Their plaintive...
...extras range from 15 years old--when I started out I was definitely the youngest--to 50. The older ones are more used in roles like "archbishop" or "dignitary" or "boyar." The really hard core people have been there since the opening of the house ten years...