Word: subway
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...past-and-present structure, bringing the reader from 18th-century Boston to modern day chapter by chapter, chronicling six generations on their hunt for the missing silver. The book ends with an appropriately cinematic touch—Fallon blowing a hole into the side of a T subway tunnel to reveal a cache of hidden silver. “I thought, as I still do, as a screenwriter,” says Martin. “And it managed to succeed in a way first novels aren’t supposed...
...another reminder of how dangerous the country has become since President Vladimir Putin came to power. While Putin has imposed draconian curbs on the media and created a tame Parliament, he has not been able to pacify Chechnya, the breakaway republic whose separatists were swiftly blamed for the subway bombing. In 1999 Putin, then a new and little-known Prime Minister, made his name by ordering the reinvasion of Chechnya. Military commanders promised a speedy victory; instead, a radical, fundamentalist wing of the guerrilla movement has brought the war to the heart of Russia. In the past nine months, more...
...death toll from last Friday's subway bombing could have been much higher but for the heroics of the train's driver, Vladimir Gorelov, who slammed on the brakes and contacted engineers to shut the power off so that people could get out of the train without risking electrocution. Some 500 people escaped. Despite the darkness, fire and the acrid smoke, witnesses said passengers were remarkably calm...
...antiterrorist measures, including the expulsion of Chechens from Moscow, declaration of a state of emergency and the lifting of a moratorium on the death penalty. Dmitry Rogozin, a deputy speaker of the Duma, called for the postponement of next month's presidential elections. And yet the audaciousness of the subway attack has exposed Russia's vulnerability to terrorism. While Russian regulations require nonresidents of Moscow to report to police on arrival and state their business, outsiders, terrorists included, can easily stay as long as they want merely by paying a $3 to $6 bribe...
...scene, musing wittily on the state of the modern male and trying to shake an obsession with his dreamy co-worker Julia. You couldn't ask for a more entertaining drinking buddy--watch out for a memorable strip-club meltdown scene--but there's a deep, dark subway of despair that rumbles underneath his riffs, and that's what makes Love Monkey more than a stand-up routine. Hell may have no fury like that of a woman scorned, but neither is there any torment quite like that of an ardent suitor rebuffed--the woe of the unsuccessful wooer...