Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pierce Brosnan's James Bond-ish chase-on-top-of-a-moving-train for Diet Coke reportedly cost more than $1 million to film, and it was a disappointment. The commercial tries to cram too many tense moments into too few seconds. The viewer spends so much time trying to firgure out where Brosnan is--hanging off a train or clambering on top--that there is no time to get scared. And then it ends--with Brosnan sipping his soda happily ever after...
...planned service extension also mean the MBTA will be forced to look for more train storage space. And South Station, where all trains now use only tracks to reach the station's 11 platforms, will have to be renovated...
...project sent BU faculty to train Afghani rebel journalists in Pakistan to provide Western media with alternative information to the news from Sovietinfluenced sources...
...keep main roads open to traffic and to disperse small threatening crowds on the spot. If the group is large, they are under orders to call in a high-ranking officer. Their commander, Lieut. Colonel Yisrael, detests this assignment. "It's against everything we teach them," he says. "We train them to use their guns when they are attacked. Here it's forbidden." Here the aggressor, more often than not, is a woman, child or student...
...Chatterton's death by poison comes not out of despair but in the hope of finding a cure for the clap. Yet the poet himself is a poignant re-creation, and the supporting cast of irrepressible eccentrics might have tumbled from a chapter of Pickwick Papers. On a train, Wychwood literally devours a novel, rolling the pages into balls and popping them into his mouth...