Word: thundering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aside from the physical problem of getting the memoirs out of the country, there was a moral consideration. It was no longer 1958, but it wasn't yet 1988 either. Only ten years before, Boris Pasternak had drawn thunder and lightning down upon himself by giving his manuscript to an Italian publisher...
Equally important were the signals Moscow did not send. As the Soviets watched the Ortega campaign unfold, they thought the Sandinistas should steal the opposition's thunder by seconding Chamorro's promise to end the hated ! military draft, but Moscow never communicated its analysis. "We don't interfere in someone else's elections," Pavlov deadpans...
...will last, and how he has survived with so many things going so wrong. Those questions, however, were far from his thinking. He was the man at the eye of the storm, supremely confident that he will still be working his will and wit on the world when the thunder and gale- force winds are spent...
...such movies largely reflects the price that studios pay for the handful of megastars whose presence is expected to guarantee a hit. The top guns include Tom Cruise, who reportedly will earn some $9 million for playing a race-car driver and co-producing Paramount's Days of Thunder. For reprising his role as Nick Nolte's streetwise sidekick in Another 48 Hrs., Eddie Murphy will take home at least $8 million, plus a share of the film's revenues. Arnold Schwarzenegger can count on $10 million for starring in Total Recall, a $50 million-plus sci-fi picture filmed...
...studio decided, five months after the film had been shot, to upgrade the 57 matte-painting backdrops that were used to help create a comic-book appearance. The improved matte work includes twinkling lights and moving boats and cars. Paramount had to frantically accelerate the editing of Days of Thunder to get the film ready for its summer release. The speedup meant that crews had to work around the clock, piling up mountains of overtime. Die Hard 2 had the same deadline problem. Says Birnbaum: "The prints will still be wet, but they'll be in the theaters on June...