Word: sterne
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...designer-sunglasses-clad, moneyed class. Not that there are many signs of a trickle-down effect just yet. A drink at these establishments would cost nearly a week's salary for the hospital administrator who put me up in her dining room under the watchful gaze of stern family portraits. Kyrgyzstan's burgeoning homestay movement is a boon to both sides, bringing locals income and providing visitors with a cheap, clean bed and friendly faces. At another homestay in a more traditional rural area, where women wear head scarves and men white-felt hats, a whole evening was spent with...
...Getting the movie made there?made at all?was a battle in itself. From near and far, the filmmakers met with armed resistance: armed, that is, with papers in triplicate and stern shakes of the head. The producers had to meet with the local People's Committees and let Vietnamese censors pore over the script by Christopher Hampton and Robert Schenkkan. "Everything was an obstacle," says executive producer Sydney Pollack, who bought the rights to the novel in 1988 and thought of directing it himself before Noyce got the itch in 1995. "The permits were a nightmare. Moving equipment...
This is the sort of atmosphere in which a retro enthusiast like Stern might seem to thrive. But it's not easy to uphold the pinball tradition in a video-game world. A decade ago, a thriving pinball company could ship 5,000 to 10,000 machines a year; this year, Stern Pinball is shipping "significantly less." Still, says Stern, "it's been a growing year. We're very happy with it. There's room for one company." His biggest hit this year was a new machine called Roller Coaster Tycoon, though the fact that it is based...
...Mecca that stood out from the other boats plying the waters off southern Bangladesh. Portworkers and fishermen noted the same squat deckhouse and plump hold that for centuries have sheltered fishermen from the cyclones of the Bay of Bengal. The Mecca had the usual rusted rigging and smoke-blackened stern. And the crew too was like most others working off Chittagong: pure Rohingyas?stocky Muslim refugees from western Burma. Only the thick salt marks high on the Mecca's bow hinted that it was ending a voyage longer than most fishing trips. But this was Chittagong, South Asia's premier...
...granted TIME the only closed-door, office interview he has sat for since the shootings began. He would not talk specifics, or for that matter even generalities, about the investigation, and spoke about himself with both reluctance - out of respect for the legions toiling under him - and a stern, powerful reticence...