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...movie tells the story of Tatyana, an ordinary Aeroflot air hostess, who, between flights from her native Kaliningrad to Leningrad, falls in love with Alexander Alexandrovich Platov, an ordinary non-descript "lawyer" who soon gets a posting in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Movie Valentine for Putin | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...Those familiar with biographies of Lyudmila and Vladimir Putin will easily identify the air hostess and her husband - and as easily will guess the rest of the plot: an inexorable climb to the pinnacle of the Russian state. It does not deviate from their real bios except for some dramatic "improvements" for the sake of political correctness. In real life, unlike in the film, Lyudmila Putina rarely appears in public alongside her husband, nor does she join him on his numerous foreign and domestic trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Movie Valentine for Putin | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...John celebrated his birthday there with a few hundred of his closest friends in 1994, and the complex has regularly accommodated large-scale awards ceremonies and posh parties. The Dems had arranged volunteers to man the registration desks, and more to serve refreshments. (Even the press were treated to Hostess cupcakes and Twinkies.) Valda Aviks, a doyenne of musical theater most recently seen as Zandra the Crack Whore in a production of Jerry Springer-the Opera turned her considerable lung power to a rendition of The Star Spangled Banner which drew rapturous cheers at the top notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Primary Starts Too | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

...realized that she had everything she needed at her fingertips. "I never had the idea of how an authentic novel should be, so that might be why I could do it," she says. "I simply wrote like I text." Using the pseudonym Momo, she posted K - about a bar hostess who gives birth to her client's child - in brief chapters on the keitai shosetsu website Gocco. It was voted the site's most popular title, and went on to win first prize in a TV-sponsored keitai shosetsu competition - landing the Saitama homemaker over $9,000 and a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tone Language | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...change their registration at caucus sites by simply signing a letter of intent. Said Miller: "He is probably the only candidate that could really do that [bridge the party gap]. It's important to him, he knows it's central to what he wants to accomplish." The hostess of the Ames house party, Andi Smith, was a former independent who twice voted for President Bush. She switched her registration to support Obama and claims a lot of independents and Republicans will be doing the same on caucus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Obama's Iowa Ground Game | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

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