Word: rasputin
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...fantasy and turns pre-Leninist Russia into a fairy-tale realm. "We lived in an enchanted world," says the Czar's mother Marie (voiced by Angela Lansbury) of a land that festered with hot heads and empty bellies. The film then pins the whole Revolution on the monk Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd). Furious at being ejected from the Czar's court, he vows revenge, unleashes the forces of revolt, dies and returns, madder than ever, to chase down Anya. "We invented a lot of Rasputin's story," acknowledges Mechanic. "But parents and teachers who have seen the film feel this...
Like a modern-day Rasputin, Morris wielded an opportunistic influence over Clinton. Learning how Morris operated clarifies for me how the President acquired his political ambidexterity and chameleonic attributes. ROBERTO LLAMAS Pinecrest, Florida...
...Boris" was a remarkable story of how a population can be changed, directed or led by the visual and printed media [WORLD, July 15]. How different the world would be if Czar Nicholas II had been able to acquire this group of outside advisers to guide him, rather than Rasputin! GEORGE MOON Southfield, Michigan...
...survivor. In any event, the '60s have proved to be just as difficult to eliminate as Rasputin was. Or, to be bipartisan, as hard to dispose of as Richard Nixon, who went down into the frozen river a hundred times during his career and always bobbed back. Nixon and the '60s, though they hated each other, were each driven by a fierce relentlessness. Nixon finally died...
...still to think of Medgar Evers or Martin Luther King Jr., or the night Bobby Kennedy was shot. But so much of the time turned to meretricious junk, an idealism gone clueless and narcissistic. We saw traces of the pattern again in the case of the Unabomber, for example--Rasputin with a chemistry set. Or we felt the vibration in the dreamy, New Age utterances of poor seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff's mother...