Word: yuri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a brilliant butterfly under glass. As much emotion-laden pantomime as dance, it retraces virtually every twist and turn of Shakespeare's familiar plot in 13 scenes before a series of sumptuous but often ponderously literal sets. The heavily orchestrated score, boldly conducted without score by Conductor Yuri Faier (he is almost blind, can see only the dancers' silhouettes), is unabashedly romantic, gently moving in its lyric flights, occasionally distracting when the onstage movements are too welded to its melodramatic moods. The acting style is sometimes reminiscent of Theda Bara and the silent films: the wildly staring...
...story of Yuri Zhivago is the story of the Russian intellectual--the disintegration of the man of ideas. Zhivago, as a student in the University, welcomes the Revolution; as a professional man displaced, repudiates it; as a degenerate in a one-room Moscow flat, is finally destroyed by it. In the process of that destruction, Pasternak tells the story of Russia in the 20th century--of the parasites who feed on emergent ideologies, of men serving and struggling against systems and faiths they cannot grasp, of the miasma of bureaucracy, land reform, nobility, and military that was Russia after October...
...delegation avoided giving their opinion of Khruschev by claiming that since most of them were Communist Party members, Americans would not believe their answer anyway. Speaking through an interpreter, Yuri Voronov, leader of the delegation, explained that one man can do nothing. "But under Khrushchev the party has done many things," he added...
Also appearing in Carnival are Yuri Belov and Tamara Nosova, both stars of director E. Ryazanow's recent spectacular, "State and Revolution...
...Russian Yuri Stepanov (6 ft. 1 in.) holds the unofficial world high-jump record of 7 ft. 1 in.; American Jesse Owens (5 ft. 111n.) holds the running broad-jump record...