Word: ivans
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...stressed his support for the incumbent, President Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, the Kremlin-dominated media gave Putin blanket - and predictably positive - coverage. Then the script took a sinister turn: first, a suicide bomber killed over 40 people in the Moscow metro; Putin blamed Chechen separatists. Immediately after, it emerged that Ivan Rybkin, an opposition presidential candidate who, like most Putin challengers, is polling in the single digits, had disappeared. Just the week before, Rybkin had taken out a full-page ad in the upmarket Moscow daily Kommersant that was sharply critical of the President. "Putin has no right to power...
...whose illustrations have appeared in TIME) and voiced and sung by Nathan Lane, Spot is a creature of indefatigable show-biz sizzle. In this expansion of the Saturday-morning show, Spot follows his boy Leonard to Florida, where Spot means to submit to the genetic-engineering experiments of Dr. Ivan Krank (Kelsey Grammer). The script, by Cheers vets Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, has a whirligig wit, and 11 songs crammed into its 67 minutes: that's more melodic content than in most Broadway musicals...
...those days. There was a king - and one or two standout hotshots busting to dethrone him. There wasn't always a clear-cut moment of succession, but the public knew soon enough when one had occurred, never mind the rankings. So it was that McEnroe eventually succumbed to Ivan Lendl, who made way for Stefan Edberg. Later, Boris Becker and Jim Courier shone brightest before Pete Sampras reigned through much of the '90s. And now? Well, there's ... no one, really. There's an official No. 1, of course - the American Andy Roddick - but only the tennis nuts would know...
Today I'd just crash and burn. I guess the best catcher out there today is Pudge [Ivan Rodriguez]. I think he probably is the greatest defensive catcher ever...
...Redgrave in Georgy Girl; Bette Midler in The Rose) to Oscar nominations; he was the solid ground they danced on. The stage allowed him to dominate. He radiated silky malevolence in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, a tonic cynicism in Simon Gray's Butley, a charming naiveté in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. Bates' brilliance was too often taken for granted. His absence leaves a profound hole, an ache, in our theater and film life. -By Richard Corliss...