Word: mirandas
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...beat. Still, people in the fashion world will probably be interested in the (endless) complaints of the fashionable Andrea, since the book's author, Lauren Weisberger, used to be the assistant of Vogue's uber-editor Anna Wintour. Could any real editor be as unreasonable as the novel's Miranda Priestly, or as greedy for high-end booty from designers? Ask the other Andrea...
...deliver a 21st century update of that. "Filthy and snappy!" he says to Brosnan and Berry as they film the scene in which Bond and Jinx meet after her swim. He wants more lust and leer in this encounter--and the whole film. Rosamund Pike, who plays MI6 agent Miranda Frost, jokes that "Lee wants to make this an X-rated Bond film." In truth, he just wants a "traditional" Bond. After Dr. No's release in 1962, the Vatican condemned the film's amorality, and in 1965, TIME disdained the popularity of "the sex, violence and snobbery with which...
...carpenter and welder in a unit that repaired buildings. Three years later, he married his high school sweetheart, Carol Kaglear, and they had a son, Lindbergh, whom he liked to show off to co-workers. "He had a million-dollar smile and was very outgoing," says Rafael Miranda, Muhammad's commander at the time. "I thought he was going to get promoted and maybe become a platoon sergeant...
Quickly, though, the well-ordered lifeshowed signs of strain. In 1982 he wasfined $100 for failing to show up forduty and was demoted one rank. In 1983 hewas fined again, this time for hitting anoncommissioned officer. "I saw flashes of anger," Miranda remembers. "Something was going on in his personal life...
...accuse Dr. Roberto Miranda of raping Paulina Escobar on 14 separate occasions, each time playing Death and the Maiden,” Paulina begins her mock trial of the doctor. He denies involvement in her rape, while she claims that, though blindfolded while being tortured, she recognizes Miranda by his voice. Screaming, obscenities and tears soon follow as the audience tries to assess whether the doctor is guilty...