Word: tovarich
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...started work last week as a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton and plans to ignore his unfinished Peter manuscript until the spring. "I'm not saying I'll never finish it," he told TIME Reporter Sarah Bedell. "Peter the Great has been around 300 years." Da, tovarich, but litterateurs may recall the fate of Leo Tolstoy, who, following the success of War and Peace, plunged into a novel about the selfsame czar. Even he abandoned the project for something shorter and simpler: Anna Karenina...
Finally, Slayton tugged on a large handle-like latch, and the door swung open, exposing the smiling faces of the two waiting Russians. Stafford called out ebulliently, "Tovarich [friend]!" Leonov's reply: "Very, very happy to see you. How are things...
...Tovarich. A waste of money, except for Vivien Leigh...
...What makes the heart beat faster in How to Succeed is money; in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, money; in Stop the World, money; in No Strings, money and in Little Me, men with money. The theme of Oliver! is a dreadful lack of money, and in Tovarich the problem is how to get rid of boodles of it. If the bored-to-tears hero of Mr. President were not so inarticulate, his theme song would doubtless be, "I'd rather be rich than President." In this company, a gentle, sentimental escapist charmer like She Loves...
...Tovarich explores new frontiers of boredom in an unmusical noncomedy. As a White Russian grand duchess posing as a housemaid in Paris in 1927, lovely Vivien Leigh does a Charleston to remember, and otherwise lights up the proceedings like a matchflare in a catacomb...