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Eventually, the authorities must have caught up with these subtle gibes at the regime and had a word with the author, a 34-year-old Moscow writer, playwright and film scenarist. In Semyonov's next novel, a paean to the Russian Revolution titled No Password Needed, the bad guys are mostly Americans and Englishmen. The world being what it is, Password will not be made available in the U.S. Publisher's reaction: "Quite unusable...
...silence forcing me to look at him. "Don't sit near me tonight. You may get hurt," he said simply. He turned to deal with a telephone message. Someone had called to day they would pick him up. He asked who had called and, apparently discovering that an expected password had not been given, informed the jovial group with us with a smile that the caller was not the right person...
...camp's commandant, who at heart is as decent as Erich von Stroheim in Grand Illusion. His troubles are with his own men-tough guys like William Holden in Stalag 17, wise guys like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, irrepressible Englishmen like Dirk Bogarde in The Password Is Courage. But Ryan is in this-man's-army, and in the end he proves it by freeing singlehanded all 964 prisoners after joining in the silent murder of their 28 guards...
...nationally televised game called Password one night last week, a contestant stared her partner in the eye and asked him for the word that people most logically associate with "cigarette." Without hesitation, the partner blurted: "Cancer." The audience roared with laughter and applause, and the master of ceremonies gulped, as if seeing all the leaders of the $8 billion-a-year U.S. tobacco industry frowning collectively at him. The health issue has caused the tobacco industry to slide from peaks that it may never reach again...
They have a saying in eastern Kentucky-- "Wait 'till the bushes grow green." It is a password, an admonition, and a desperate expression of hope among coal miners fighting for a lost propsperity. For in summer, when the bushes are green, a man can hide with a rifle, and in the rolling hills of Kentucky, a rifle has often had a persuasive effect on coal operators...