Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think. The trouble is that Penelope Ann Miller, who is a lovely ingenue (see The Freshman), is entirely wrong for the role. The plot requires Larry to fall in love with Kate at first sight, shrewdly seeing what neither she nor anyone else does: that she is his soul mate in amorality. Eventually Kate is supposed to find this very sexy. But such tough-minded complexity Miller cannot find within herself. So what was once a cheerful amorality play turns into a much more conventionally moral movie -- complete with a "nicer" ending than its source...
Raisa paints the Soviet leader as a hardworking man who likes to sing and kid his sometimes prissy mate. She acknowledges her unpopularity in her own country and scoffs at the criticism from some quarters that she has put on airs. And she points to continuing threats from both the left and the right. "In the center of this gigantic whirlwind is the person closest to me," she says. "Will we be able to come out of the whirlwind with honor?" There is now some hope...
...Clarence Thomas, 43, a black federal appeals judge from Washington; Ricardo Hinojosa, 40, a Mexican-American federal district judge from Texas; and Edith Jones, 41, a white federal appeals judge from Houston. But Bush has a penchant for surprise nominations -- witness his choice of Dan Quayle as a running mate -- and he might indulge it this time...
Ryzhkov, who was replaced as prime minister in January, thought he had pocketed the military vote when he chose General Boris Gromov as his running mate. An articulate hard-liner, Gromov served as the Soviet commander in Afghanistan before becoming Deputy Interior Minister in December. But even if Rutskoi does win votes from enlisted men and reform-minded Communists, Ryzhkov has earned the support of the military-industrial complex and the party bureaucracy through his attacks on economic "shock therapy" and his defense of the country's "socialist choice." Because Ryzhkov and Gromov are counting so much on local party...
...generals and party hacks, Bakatin insists that he is an "independent" candidate. Speculation that he is really the Kremlin's man has been so intense, however, that Bakatin felt compelled to note last week that "I've said no to Gorbachev many times." Bakatin shrewdly chose as his running mate Ramazan Abdulatipov, an ethnic Muslim who is chairman of the Russian parliament's Council of Nationalities. Opposition to Yeltsin's sovereignty campaign has been particularly fierce in Russia's ethnic enclaves. Bakatin's reputation as a reformer is also sufficiently solid that he might draw enough moderate votes from Yeltsin...