Word: leaden
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...night hybrid of 60 Minutes and MTV, co-hosts "Alex" Lyubimov, 26, and "Dima" Zakharov, 30, prefer what they jokingly call the "rough and macho" look. They wear T shirts and blue jeans. At times they may seem a bit cocky, inviting viewers to send in such oddities as leaden macaroni mixes or bread loaves containing glass chips for their "museum of shoddy goods." But they are as earnest as Molchanov in exploring the boundaries of glasnost...
...health, the letter is a comedic landmark of sorts. Its appearance in the March issue of Theater, a glossy literary monthly, may mark the first time | that the name of a sitting Soviet leader has been invoked in a government- authorized publication to lampoon the country's leaden bureaucracy...
Gromyko's mostly leaden prose flutters when he describes a 1959 encounter with Marilyn Monroe at a Hollywood reception. "She was considered the embodiment of womanhood in the '60s," writes Gromyko. The star-struck diplomat sounds almost breathless when he recounts that Monroe "sat at a table across from us, literally five meters away." He adds, "As I was leaving, she suddenly called out, 'Mr. Gromyko, how are you?' She said it as if we were old friends." Gromyko dwells at length on Monroe's 1962 suicide, speculating that she was murdered by U.S. Government agents because of her supposed...
...private morality and power politics. It rekindles the sparks of adult sexuality on the American screen. And in its capacious reach, the picture means to embrace three decades of European films. For 2 hours 47 minutes, it dances from the skeptical eroticism of mid-'60s Czech films to the leaden sentimentality of French Director Claude Lelouch. At its best, it recalls the anguished intensity of vintage Bergman. At its worst, with its English-speaking actors sporting Middle European accents, it reminds one of De Duva, a parody of Bergman films in which Death (speaking in Borscht Belt Swedish) gets dumped...
...strikes you with leaden bullets...