Word: apts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them in a meat grinder," said Eugene Young, who usually fishes the waters for pollock, hake and cod in September. "You had to go awfully slow, because if someone was in the water, you didn't want to run them over." His image of an abattoir was apt. "There was not one bit of hope. Someone's belly here. Intestines over there." Despite the comfort of cove legend, out of the wreck of Swissair Flight 111 came not even one survivor from the 229 people onboard...
...MCKELLEN Apt Pupil; Gods and Monsters...
...with leading roles in two ambitious thrillers, Sir Ian, 59, must face the inconvenience of movie stardom. In Gods and Monsters, he is James Whale, the director of Frankenstein, who in his last days seeks a young man to ease his roiling soul. In the Stephen King tale Apt Pupil, he plays an aged Nazi, living incognito in California, who is forced into an uneasy alliance with a curious teenager. McKellen is the soul of pained grace in one film, the spirit of caged evil in the other; but both reveal an actor totally at ease with the camera...
Russians are long-suffering, but they have been suffering too long to remain passive. If the anguish drags on until the 2000 election, they might not take to the barricades, but they are apt to protest with their votes. Western experts are concerned that Russians could reject what has been peddled to them as democracy and capitalism and toss it all overboard. The leading candidates to succeed Yeltsin already include Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and retired General Alexander Lebed, the Governor of Krasnoyarsk province. Luzhkov cultivates the air of a strongman and is no fan of reform. Lebed's political...
Stephan is expected to wind up his investigation this fall, but a trial, if it occurs, is not likely to take place until at least mid-1999. The civil phase, which will almost certainly spill over into the next century, is apt to wind up in an unseemly brawl involving the Ritz, al Fayed, the bodyguards, the paparazzi, Etoile Limousine and, of course, the insurance companies. Meanwhile, al Fayed continues to pursue his own investigation and to defend his son's reputation, keeping his London and Paris apartments eerily intact. "It is like the Egyptian pyramids," he says. "When...