Word: kissing
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...learn and work as the Great Vladimir Lenin ordained," was a basic brainwashing slogan of the Soviet era. "Live, love and have sex as the Great Vladimir Putin does," is the parallel message of an off-the-wall Russian movie that hits DVD shops on St. Valentine Day. A Kiss - Off the Record is a big, sloppy, and cloying smooch to the Russian President - and to Russians enthralled by his uplifting image of the motherland. "It's a film on family values - and we want families to watch it at home together," the film's producer Anatoli Voropayev told...
...There may be more than mere St. Valentine's romance (or even crass commercial motives) at play in the new film's appearance right now. A Kiss - Off the Record was made in 2003, but shelved, Voropayev explains, to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest after he became a civil servant later that year. He has since served as vice-governor in two Russian regions. Voropayev resigned in December, so he says he thought it quite proper to release this movie at last. That may be true. But Voropayev may well figure that it can't hurt to send...
...faces the press instead. Tatyana handles the test with such intelligence, grace and charm that she reaps a standing ovation from the audience, which had before been biased against all things Russian. President Platov joins the applause in the wings, then, failing to contain his feelings, steps up and kisses his darling First Lady under dozens of whizzing cameras, telling the press offhandedly: "This kiss is off the record...
...last interview with TIME, renegade East Timorese Military Police commander Alfredo Reinado boasted that so good were his ambush and surveillance skills that he could sneak into the bedrooms of his country's leaders. "If I want to, I can kiss them while they are sleeping," he said in a July 2007 meeting in the heart of the Timor jungle...
...stimulation. But with Valentine’s Day approaching, it’s likely they will be home to other activities as well. From the banks of the Charles River to the Science Center observatory, students say the campus provides an endless array of romantic backdrops for that perfect kiss. Lamont Library, as anyone who frequents boredatlamont.com knows, has been hosting extracurricular encounters for years. Jenna M. Mellor ’08 says that Lamont is the best library for discreet make-out sessions because it’s “so boring and dry and miserable, that...