Word: dimitri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington predict that Brezhnev will remain firmly in power until well after the Communist Party Congress meets next February. Indeed, Brezhnev reportedly delivered a secret speech to the Supreme Soviet attacking people who might be held accountable for the agriculture catastrophe. The most obvious targets were Agriculture Minister Dimitri Polyansky and Fyodor Kulakov, chief of the party's agricultural department. Both men have been touted as possible successors to Brezhnev, but it is now possible that their careers have been as badly blighted as the grain crop they supervised this year...
David O. Selznick was worried. A scene in Duel in the Sun called for some off-camera sex between Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones. Selznick needed "screwing music," but Composer Dimitri Tiomkin's score had a windy, rasping sound. "Dimitri, the music doesn't have enough shtup," Selznick said. "It doesn't sound like the way I make love." Tiomkin defended his score. "You love your way and I'll love mine," he said. "To me, that's lovemaking music...
...seismic collapse of Europe in 1914 brought on the modern age of political assassinations. Russia's Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin had already been killed in 1911 by Dimitri Bogrov, who may have been acting as a revolutionary or a police agent. Then Serbian nationalists assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand-a dissident act that brought on the first World...
...historical drama, part revolutionary tract, Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is a truly original epic that brings old Russia startlingly to life. It is the semihistorical tale of a Kremlin politician who attains his country's throne by murdering the czar's only heir, the boy Dimitri. Filled with remorse, fear and delusion, Boris dies a crazed death as a people's revolution, led by a false Dimitri, prepares to overthrow him. Powerfully scored, Boris has no peers in Russia and precious few in all of opera. Yet for close to a century, Mussorgsky...
...bassoons to accompany the troubled Boris, he had a somber, dry, psychologically adroit sound in mind that was infinitely more effective than the 60 or so strings and winds Rimsky thought sounded better. Mussorgsky used the harp only once -for the lush, quite beautiful scene between the Pretender Dimitri and the Polish princess Marina in Act II. It is a precise effect completely destroyed by Rimsky's use of the harp throughout the opera...