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...week's events unfolded, their worst fears seemed to be realized. Speeding from appointment to appointment through Moscow's wide streets in a black, chauffeur-driven Chaika limousine, Graham saw only what his hosts wanted him to see. Moreover, he seemed to say only what his hosts wanted him to say. At the end of a hectic schedule, which included a sermon at the only Baptist church in Moscow, a homily at the opulent Yelokhovsky Orthodox Cathedral, a speech at the conference (held in Moscow's World Trade Center) and a meeting with the six Pentecostalists taking...
...hardly matters that Diva's plot components do not parse. The best thrillers rarely traffic in linear common sense; nobody, including Raymond Chandler, ever figured out who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep. But they did evoke a world so cohesively ominous that when life and death eyeballed each other at the denouement, it mattered which one blinked first. No such laws operate in Diva. In an early scene, we see a harried woman trudging barefoot through a Metro station; she recognizes two men-a skinheaded punk and a swarthy rake-and smiles enigmatically as they pursue...
...played opposite such leading men as Robert Taylor, Fredric March and Melvyn Douglas; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Often cast as a glamorous schemer, Bruce scored an early triumph in 1932 as an adulterous maid who shared her favors with villainous Chauffeur John Gilbert in Downstairs (she married him the same year). A veteran of 55 films, Bruce is best remembered for her portrayal of a chorus girl in The Great Ziegfeld...
Much of the $106 million budget for the legislature goes to pay the salaries of its 1,000 employees. Ninety-three of those are sergeants at arms, who have been routinely dispatched to pick up laundry, chauffeur wives and, in one case, to feed live mice regularly to a pet snake belonging to former Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti. The majority of the legislative staff, of course, is engaged in legitimate work. But critics question the propriety, let alone the need, of hiring 200 new aides this year. Most of the 78 additional senate staff members, according to President Pro Tempore...
...began normally enough. At about 8:50, Christian Chapman, 60, left his apartment in the fashionable Seventh Arrondissement in Paris and turned toward his metallic-blue 1978 Plymouth, where his chauffeur was waiting, engine idling, to drive him to his post as the charge d'affaires in the U.S. embassy on the Place de la Concorde. Almost immediately, Chapman became aware of a bearded, athletic-looking young man in a black leather jacket who was approaching down the sidewalk. But Chapman sensed no danger until the man thrust his hand into his jacket and started after him. Chapman dodged...