Word: petrovics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Were Boris. Just as Hines was preening over that, the Paris press was proclaiming a Soviet basso, Ivan Petrov, as the world's greatest Boris. Petrov came to town with 40 Ibs. of jeweled costumes and the rank of "Artist of the Soviet People." His Boris is ideologically and politically rehabilitated: "He is touched by the misery of the Russian people he tried to help," Petrov says. In Paris, Petrov brought a bouquet of flowers to Chaliapin's grave in the Batignolles Cemetery, then disclaimed the master's influence with a fashionable Russian proverb: "Better...
Boris' death scene gives every basso the dramatic treat of getting to pitch himself down a flight of stairs if he cares to. In Europe, Christoff and Petrov die quietly, as if by surprise, but the Met's staging invites a good fall. London, the intellectual Boris, dies intelligently-a heave, a cry, a little gasp, and he's gone, rolling gently down the stairs. Hines, though, plays it for all he's worth. Clawing the air, grasping his heaving chest, he cries his final line ("Forgive me! Forgive me!") and pitches himself headlong down...
Lovable Diplomat. Australia's swift expulsion of Skripov is understandable. In 1954, MVD Colonel Vladimir Petrov, who also had been posing as a lovable diplomat, defected to the West with an armful of secret documents that described widespread Soviet snooping operations Down Under. Caught Redhanded, the Russians broke off diplomatic relations, did not reopen their Canberra embassy for five years...
...routine check on his paper's list of 8,000 mail subscribers, McMahon came upon three curious names. One was Captain Imre Mozsik, assistant military and air attache at the Hungarian legation in Washington. The other two also had addresses in the nation's capital: K. Petrov at the Bulgarian legation and August A. Yashin at the Russian embassy. Could these distant subscribers really care about the new school budget or the fortunes of the high school football teams? Or were they more concerned with any and all news of Abilene's Dyess Air Force Base...
...This incident." commented the Reporter-News in an editorial, "brings home to us that precautions must be taken even on the local level to safeguard any information the Communists might want." Last week, along with copies of the Reporter-News, Subscribers Mozsik, Petrov and Yashin got a curt cancellation notice from Publisher McMahon: "This, gentlemen, is the last copy of the Abilene Reporter-News you will receive." Just how his move would affect his former subscribers, McMahon did not explain. "I know they can buy the paper on a newsstand," he said. Nonetheless, the Reporter-News will continue to publish...