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...head against his shoulder until she had to be drawn away from the casket. Fog horns and sirens keened as the coffin was lowered into a plot on the Kremlin Wall terrace, opposite to where Brezhnev and Andropov are buried. As the national anthem sounded, the red and gold hammer-and-sickle flag above the Kremlin was hoisted back to full staff and troops marched briskly past the Lenin Mausoleum to the sounds of a military march. The old era had ended...
Critics dismiss Pickens' defense of shareholder interest. Says Harold Hammer, the Gulf executive vice president who directed his company's effort to thwart the Texan: "My only objection to Pickens is the aura he tries to create when he says he is for the small shareholder. That's just a lot of crap." Says Senator Howard Metzenbaum, an Ohio Democrat: "Pickens makes a crusade out of what he's doing because he can make a lot of money." Many critics have labeled Pickens a greenmailer, a charge he hotly denies. The term describes a type of corporate blackmail in which...
Here and there it was hard to catch the drift of conversations, in particular those in Cajun French. In some phrasing and pronunciation, Cajun French has about as much in common with the French language as a claw hammer has with poetry; their English too is similarly disconnected, off the bead. For example, the unemployed might put the situation this way: "I told him for a job, he ask me no." Then again, a real live French photographer along for the ride said he would not attempt to speak like them because "I would never massacrate their language...
After the set has been designed, the technical director and the producer must find a crew to help with the final building. Often, actors pitch in to hammer and paint...
...acting school. The first was the work ethic, which he had not grasped while growing up in the protected world of a Chicago suburb. Once so lazy that he had flunked out of Wisconsin's Ripon College in his senior year, he became accustomed to picking up his hammer and saw early in the morning and continuing until the job was finished. "Now I find it difficult to enjoy myself when I'm not working," he says. "And I am not able to distract myself when I'm waiting around on a set. I sit and stare at the walls...