Word: irina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chekhov hero and heroine are people to whom nothing happens. His Sisters exist in a sad purgatory of might-have-beens and never-will-bes. Masha (Kim Stanley), married at 18 to a bureaucratic clod, alternately tongue-lashes him as a clownish bore and lapses broodily into tears. Irina (Shirley Knight) has made a hysterical religion of work. Olga (Geraldine Page) is a kind of involuntary nun of duty, serving joylessly as the local school headmistress. The cultured, well-educated sisters are too weak to demand life on their own terms, too proud to beg for it, and too honorable...
...spate of speculation in the Parisian press that Brigitte might, for Sami, convert to Judaism. ∙ ∙ ∙ As Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, 52, told it to a select little clique gathered to watch the Bolshoi Ballet troupe at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan, his wife, Irina, is an in curable shutterbug, with a passion for sunsets. When she goes back to Russia she will have snapped sunsets in New York, sunsets in Chicago, sunsets in Los Angeles, sunsets in every U.S. city she has visited. Cracked one of the guests in the diamond horseshoe circle, U.S. Ambassador...
Wearing a fashionable black Chesterfield overcoat, the tall, polished Dobrynin stepped off the midday express from New York with his attractive brunette wife Irina Nikolaevna at his side. Russian embassy staffers showered him with roses, thrust out carnations. Dobrynin lost no time in dispensing his own roses. Smiling graciously and speaking in slightly accented English, he quoted Thomas Jefferson on the "remarkable similarity" between Americans and Russians, extended "the friendly greetings of my people." Then he climbed into a black Zil limousine and sped off to the Soviet embassy...
...Fonda will be General James Gavin, now U.S. Ambassador to France (as a private little joke among peers, Zanuck earlier told Gavin that he thought Mickey Rooney would be right for the part). French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault will appear as the abbe of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Model Irina Demich, known previously only to Zanuck, will play a young Resistance heroine. She already has a proper military attitude: "All I can think of is to make a success in this picture and to do what Mr. Zanuck expects...
...superb dancing executed at unusually slow tempi. Star of the evening was Inna Zubkovskaya, who put on such a virtuoso display that the audience scarcely noticed that the company omitted the thirty-two fouettés that are a feature of the third act in most performances. With Zubkovskaya. Irina Kolpakova, who danced Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, and Danseur Noble Vladilen Semenov, the company proved that it has lead dancers who can hold their own with any now on the stage...