Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Woman of the Year Pfeiffer will receive a parade and "roast" in her honor on February 13. Hanks will be roasted during opening night festivities for the 147th Hasty Pudding Theatricals show, "A Tsar is Born," on February...
...their 147th production, the Theatricals have chosen Baskin and Cooper's A Tsar is Born, a romantic farce set in the 19th century all-male town of Undergrad. The show will be cast in December and is scheduled to open in February for a four-week...
...Gelsey Kirkland and Michael Jackson as well as obscure books she felt deserved attention, such as Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, the manuscript of which was languishing in a Kansas library until she took an interest. She made something of a crusade for Edvard Radzinsky's The Last Tsar, getting what Rubin calls her SWAT team of assistants to promote the book. Most days she lunched at her desk on carrot and celery sticks. Says Doubleday associate publisher Marly Russoff: "It was always a shock for the first few times when you'd pass her in the hall...
...film takes us through the defining early moments of Ivan's reign: his marriage to the beloved Anastasia, immortalized as the paragon of duty and honor; the conflicts and intrigues among the boyars, who are fearful of the new tsar's control; Ivan's relationship with his friend Kurbsky, who secretly harbors resentments for his number two status; and Ivan's early sickness, which makes everyone in the court wonder about the tenuous future of the Russian state. Part I ends with the death of Anastasia, a turning point for Ivan, who loses the only person in his court that...
BOOKS The drama of The Last Tsar is in the riveting details...