Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrator of this drowsy thriller, now being whooped as a likely best seller, is a U.S. journalist who specializes in the Soviet Union. An old love has asked him to help find her missing stepfather, a Canadian tycoon. As the hero searches, he unravels the mystery of her birth and the farfetched identity of her aristocratic Russian mother...
...rest of this film is poor slapstick. Acting uncoordinated and uneducated for two hours may make you smile once or twice, but it just isn't funny. Chase's most successful film in recent months, rtetch teatured him as a clever journalist who played off of other people's stupidity rather than his own. Audiences want heroes these day, not dupes. That's why Eddie Murphy just bought his fifth Rolls. If Chase is to retain a respectable piece of the humor market, he should drop the meaningless, foolish and disjointed antics concentrating on outwitting others rather than prostrating himself...
Soviet officials are letting it be known that Shevardnadze has long cultivated an unpretentious life-style of the kind that Gorbachev seems to favor. At a time when the families of other Georgian officials lived in splendid villas and drove around in limousines, Shevardnadze's wife Nanuli, a journalist, was said to take the bus to work. Although he is both admired and disliked in Georgia for his crackdown on corruption, early this year he felt confident enough of his position to authorize a newspaper poll of public reaction to his policies, a rare and unorthodox action for a Soviet...
...commandeered, several gunmen captured Thomas Sutherland, 52, the university's dean of agriculture. Jeremy Levin of the Cable News Network, another American hostage taken in Beirut, escaped in February, eleven months after he was abducted. In March two French embassy officials were abducted in Beirut; in May a journalist and a researcher, both French, were kidnaped...
Increasingly dependent on one another, the 7 million residents of either side of the boundary have created a cooperative culture that is neither American nor Mexican. It is a hybrid that has latched on to the strengths of both national heritages. The corridor, observes Journalist Tom Miller in his book On the Border, "is a third country with its own identity . . . Its food, its language, its music are its own. Even its economic development is unique...