Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friendly pay phone, it isn't hard to place a call. But for pay phones you need to find 35 cents or remember your calling card number. Always a pain. And Centrexes have the whole privacy issue. Someone calls up and you hear the customary static and background noise. "How are you?" And then you can broadcast your personal business over a rather wide radius. Not so fun. And you can only call Harvard people, a disadvantage if you know people who have more than 5 digits in their phone number. Or already have cell phones...
...unconfirmed reports, he worked for the KGB at this time. Primakov never comments on the allegations, though the fact that his two top aides are both senior intelligence officers shows that he is very much at home with the world of spies. A Russian who intimately knows Primakov's background doubts that Primakov was a staff KGB officer but is certain that he did "special assignments" for the KGB in the Middle East...
Even the supermodels themselves seem bored. In Milan last month, Schiffer talked briefly about quitting modeling to concentrate on her acting career. Romijn is already distancing herself from her modeling background. "I don't like modeling that much," she says. "It's been a great trip, but straight print modeling is so mindless." How far has the stock of modeling fallen? Kate Moss once dated Johnny Depp, and Cindy Crawford was married to Richard Gere; Romijn's husband is John Stamos...
With only one character, Soldier relegates everyone but Russell to the background. Even the little one sees of the supporting cast is no meaningful basis on which to judge their acting abilities. One nice twist in the story is that Todd, the only character to give any signs of development throughout during the film, has probably about ten lines of dialogue in the whole move. Russell does a good job of portraying Todd, who does not speak because he cannot cope with life beyond the military. He even comes close to evoking a bit of pity for the character...
...ready for pain?" growls Captain Freedom in the very Schwarzeneggerian sci-fi fable The Running Man (1987), as a sea of leotard-clad beauties swirls in the background. "Are you ready for suffering? If the answer is yes, then you're ready for Captain Freedom's workout! Yeah...