Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TAMMERLIN DRUMMOND, our Miami bureau chief, found covering the eruption on Montserrat a daunting and unpredictable assignment. A gas mask and protective eye gear at the ready, Drummond was in the middle of an interview when a warning siren went off, forcing her and her subject to jump into his car and head north to a so-called safe zone. Along the way, she watched as thick smoke spewed out of the dome of Soufriere Hills. Says Drummond: "I was amazed at the bravery and resiliency of the Montserrat residents...
...wife gently changed the subject. It was true there were many bills to pay, and there would be no bonuses from this mission. Unlike their American counterparts, Russian cosmonauts are paid bonuses when they do something right. A successful orbital flush, for instance, could mean a down payment on a toaster or a bribe for a telephone, while a high-profile docking could send a child through college. Larissa wasn't sure whether there were corresponding disincentives for failure, but she (and of course the neighbors) couldn't help noticing how vague Vasily had been on the subject...
Even before his 1985 marriage to Madonna (they divorced in 1989), Penn had a rep as a ferocious scrapper, a plague on all paparazzi, a reluctant and truculent interview subject. These days Penn, who turned 37 this week and who married Wright last year after a long, volatile, off-and-on relationship, replies thoughtfully to a reporter's probes. What about Hollywood's embrace of independent films? "I don't trust that any more than I trust a mother-in-law's love." Is he happy? "I'm not going to accuse myself of being happy; just saying that would...
Most antihero movies wuss out. Studios figure that audiences need someone to root for, that the real Larry Flynt, say, would be too unpleasant to watch for two hours. But the TNT mini-series George Wallace (Aug. 24 and 26, 8 p.m. ET), like its subject, isn't afraid to give it to you straight, unpleasantness...
Both, as it turned out, and the Washington Post book critic and columnist Jonathan Yardley engagingly examines this double identity in Misfit: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley (Random House; 255 pages; $23). Yardley makes no inflated claims on behalf of his subject: "Fred was a professional writer, although only one of his three books [A Fan's Notes] will long remain in print." But Exley (1929-1992) intensely interested and exasperated his readers, relatives, friends, casual acquaintances and the victims of his odd-hours telephone monologues, among whom Yardley and this reviewer number themselves. "What a piece of work...