Word: generics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born in India into a British army family from Northern Ireland, Ashdown acquired his generic Irishman's nickname at a boarding school in England. When his father failed as a pig farmer in retirement, Ashdown enlisted in the Royal Marines, took officer training and satisfied his thirst for adventure by joining the highly respected Special Boat Service commandos. After a decade of frontline service, he spent two years learning fluent Chinese and soaking up Chinese history -- prompting suspicions that he engaged in intelligence. In 1971 he resigned with the rank of captain, entered the foreign service and was posted...
...when I landed in the airport of Kyzyl, a generic town in Siberia, I wasn't exactly prepared...
Actually, Kyzyl is hardly generic. Its Claim to fame is a phallic object commemorating its position as the geographic center of Asia. (Only it isn't; the center is now a couple of miles downstream May be the U.S. had some master plan to blast those crucial points...
...story is simple, but not simplistic. Sweetback (Van Peebles, the director) works as a performer in a brother. He makes his living displaying his sexual prowess for a racially mixed audience. The police "borrow" him from the brothel owner to serve as a generic black suspect...
...generic, throbbing, boring...