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From this point on, the movie veers dangerously near the plot of Romancing the Stone. She meets the son of the author of the Rebecca Ryan novels, Adam McMann (Tom Conti). He thinks she's a put-on or a practical joke. She thinks he is her fictional right-hand man Dimitri. Doubts begin springing up in McMann's mind after he and Ryan/Palmer are sniped at few times by an unknown assassin. The imitation pulp heroine thinks it's all part of a plot involving a prominent French politician (Giancarlo Grannini), who would just as soon have nothing...
...Rose Smith cruised down the left side of the field unchallenged and whacked the ball into the top right-hand corner...
...mullacracy extends the same harsh treatment to independent-minded individuals. In 1982 Khomeini betrayed few qualms about having his former right-hand man and Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, executed; last July, when his fiercest hanging judge, Ayatullah Mohammed Gilani, asked permission to spare 340 penitent political prisoners, the Ayatullah overruled him and sent them instantly to their deaths. The government continues to interpret "counterrevolution" broadly enough to cover a multitude of so-called sins. Homosexuals, drug dealers and unfaithful wives are all targets for the firing squads. A woman who neglects to wear her head scarf may find herself thrown...
Others who have met Chernenko are less eager to rush to judgment. Former President Jimmy Carter, who also watched him at Vienna, agrees that Chernenko was Brezhnev's right-hand man at the conference, but feels he was by no means merely a subservient functionary. Chernenko was taciturn, Carter recalls, yet he was frequently consulted by his Soviet colleagues...
Captain Diane Hurley opened the scoring barrage at 3:17 of the first with a scorching shot high into the right-hand corner of the Larries's net., For St. Lawrence netminder Becky Clements, it was just an omen of shots to come. The Mississauga. Ont. native had a long night ahead...