Word: perms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After being interrogated about a hundred times at Lefortovo prison, always under bright lights, Potashov was sentenced to 13 years and shipped east to the notorious Perm-35 prison camp in the Urals. "After Lefortovo," he said, "there was a 17-day trip in a cage with 15 murderers, all with TB. In Perm I was a transport worker hauling 500 lbs. of metal parts in a handcart. I had to push the cart, and my right shoulder joint broke." Potashov and the other prisoners worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly...
...after Ames identified him as a CIA source, the KGB took him into custody. He was sentenced to 15 years for high treason. On Feb. 7, 1992, after six years under harsh conditions in the Gulag, he was another of the 10 political prisoners released from Perm-35 under Yeltsin's amnesty. Gray-haired at 53, he now lives in northern California with his wife Nadia and daughter Olga...
...jokes, "We're gonna go see Debbie before she dies." But the star of Singin' in the Rain, Tammy and the Bachelor, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and some messy '50s headlines ain't down yet. And she ain't just cute. There's a platinum will under her blond perm (as her daughter Carrie Fisher suggested in the fond, acerbic novel and film Postcards from the Edge). And there's a vision in Debbie's show-biz heart--a vision that looks back to the movies' glory days, from the '20s through the '60s. Who else has built and stocked...
...remember the day Greg Brady got a perm and innocence was lost forever...
...late-19th century New York, "The Age of Innocence" tells the tale of the reintroduction of the Countess Olenska (played by Michelle Pfeiffer, with a shocking perm) to New York high society, after a decades-long sojourn in Europe with her husband. The Countess has made a bad marriage and is now returned to the bosoms of her former associates sans Count and hoping to divorce, which casts her as a fallen woman in the eyes of this morally puritanical--though decadent--crowd. Newland Archer (played by a stalwart yet at times wistful Daniel Day-Lewis), the intellectually curious scion...