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...here as an FBI agent that both J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King Jr. could love. He takes the measure of this film: a watchmaker's craftsmanship, a marathoner's doggedness. With every confident frame, Mississippi Burning announces itself as a big, bold bolt of rabble- rousin', rebel-razin' movie journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fire This Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers. A stark new film about the case has won acclaim for its cinematic bravado and for Gene Hackman' s career- capping performance. The movie has also stoked questions about the ways history may be bent in pursuit of rebel- razin' entertainment. See SHOW BUSINESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

SHOSTAKOVICH: THE EXECUTION OF STEPAN RAZIN and SYMPHONY NO. 9 (Melodiya-Angel). Razin was a 17th century Cossack rake who divided his energies between pillaging the Volga Valley and leading whole cities in uprisings against the Czar. When he was finally captured and executed, his severed head, so goes the legend, continued to shout defiance and inspired further rebellions. Evgeny Evtushenko has put the story in poetry, and Shostakovich here sets the theme to unabashedly patriotic music. Sung in stirring form by Bass Vitaly Gromadsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema: Mar. 3, 1967 | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

Folk Songs of the U.S.S.R. (Red Army Chorus. Pyatnitzky Chorus, soloists; Keynote; 8 sides). Some of the deep feeling, childish simplicity and vein of fatalism of the Russian people shines through these well-chosen songs, which include Stepan Razin, tale of the Slavic Robin Hood. But the recordings, made in the U.S.S.R., are fuzzily inadequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...program of thirteen numbers and two reminiscences proved much of the same sort as last year's. There was melodrama in "Stenka Razin", high tragedy in "The King Orders the Drums to be Beaten", sentiment in "A Winter Evening", sentimentality in "The Arrival at Bethlehem", sugar-sweet delicacy in many others, and varying degrees of piquancy, satire, burlesque, and buffoonery in the rest. Their were pleasures for all tastes. Color, line, and grace abounded; the characters, whenever there were any, stood out distinctly in the talents of the actors, but best of all were the voices. Whether in verse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/11/1925 | See Source »

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