Word: talked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a war fought with bombers and artillery, though the dirty, killing work of real combat will probably increase as the Russian troops approach Grozny, the Chechen capital. Reports filtering out of the front lines are filled with talk of shortages of warm clothes, sleeping bags, gloves and socks for the troops, who will have to spend a bitterly cold winter in the open...
Adrian Smith is not 17 years old. The British game designer's hormones are about a decade and a half past the raging stage. Yet talk to him about his creation Lara Croft--buxom heroine of the Tomb Raider series of computer games--and his face lights up with a naughty-boy grin. "Lara's changed fairly significantly," he says of her latest outing, Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation. "She's got a bottom now. She's got cheeks. She's smoother. Now she exists just as we first imagined...
...perfect cappuccino on every block. And Germans have become as aggressive as Caspar Milquetoast. The Russians? Moscow has turned into latte land, and so the remnants of the Red Army cannot even overwhelm a bunch of bedraggled Chechens. Why does Israel, a modern-day democratic Sparta, talk withdrawal from Lebanon? Just count the espresso machines on Tel Aviv's Shenkin Street...
...says--is her passion, but it was also clearly her salvation. She grew up poor, in public housing in Nottingham, in the north of England, with eight brothers and sisters, and was shuffled in and out of foster homes. She left school at 13, and though she refuses to talk about those rough days--"I don't want my future in acting to be about my past"--her chance to participate in an acting workshop from ages 11 to 16 was her big break into that future...
...nerd uniform of a dark gray pinstripe suit and skateboarding sneakers, Stein, 55, basks in being recognized and, when that fails, in introducing himself to the wait staff by his full name. This week he hopes to up his recognition factor with Turn Ben Stein On, a talk show that airs on Comedy Central Thursdays at 10:30 p.m. E.T., right after his game show. The new show gathers, with mixed results, a small group of culturemakers to discuss a single topic, like high school or growing up in Hollywood. And Stein is trying to develop a sitcom and launch...