Word: russian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unlike actors forever frozen in images not of their own making, the Fitzgeralds' protagonists want to direct their own fate. Val Rostoff, the dispossessed Russian count in Scott's "Love in the Night," returns to the harbor at Cannes each spring hoping to find the mysterious American woman on her yacht where they made love beneath the moon, one night many Aprils before...
Died. Leonid, 80, Russian-born neoromantic painter; in Manhattan, where he had lived since World War II. While painting on the Mediterranean coast in the 1920s, Leonid became fascinated by the mysterious beauty of the shore, and pale, silent seascapes became his hallmark...
Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is, unfortunately, a tedious, though visually beautiful film by a great director. Alexander Nevsky is a patriotic Russian prince of the fifteenth century who drives out the Teutonic Knights, and the whole film is a transparent Russian nationalist allegory for the Second World War consisting almost entirely of battle scenes. For the first twenty minutes the sight of these elaborately armored and cross bedecked knights fighting in the snow seems breathtaking, but the effect soon wears off and cannot sustain the last two hours. Eisenstein made this film to please Stalin, making it possible...
...things are rarely simple for coaches and the storm whipped up gale force winds which made the long ball a game of Russian roulette. Kicks directly into the wind often behaved like boomerangs...
...story of Henry VIII's war with the papacy over his divorce, assuming that most English-speaking readers know it already. At other times, though, particularly in his discussion of more recent times, Johnson's book has some peculiar lacunae. There is not a word about Russian Orthodoxy under the Czars, or under Communism. Nor about pentecostalism, a significant force in American Christianity since the turn of the century and now a phenomenon world wide. He barely touches on the Protestant ecumenical movement...