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...confuses his feral companions has once again proved to be unfilmable. The 1948 French version at least had the advantage of a magnificent portrayal of Prince Myshkin by the late Gerard Philipe, who was almost unknown at the time. Like everyone else in the Russian film, the present Myshkin, Yuri Yakovlev, acts at the top of his voice, generally while striding up and down in a pattern that would be understandable if he were carrying bagpipes. A good deal of the plot, including the murder of Nas-tasia Filipovna, has been left out, presumably for clarity. What is left never...
...last week's Penn Relays, High Jumper John Thomas, 19, loped toward the barrier, kicked high, sailed over the bar to set a world's outdoor record of 7 ft. 1½ in. The previous mark of 7 ft. 1 in. was set by Russian High Jumper Yuri Stepanov in 1957 while wearing built-up shoes of a type now banned. Thomas already holds the indoor record of 7 ft. 2½ in., but only outdoor jumps gain international recognition...
...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...