Word: russianizing
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...delete or miss anything TiVo had saved especially for me--who wants to disappoint a machine that has worked so hard?--I lost a lot of sleep watching things I wasn't quite in the mood for. Take the night I stayed up bleary-eyed through the three-hour Russian version of Solaris just so TiVo could cram the next day's Simpsons and West Wing onto its NOW PLAYING list. There must, I knew, be a way to make TiVo work a little harder...
...word to our Russian friends: Nyet...
...Tikrit it would be better if we said you were Russian," said my interpreter Marwan as we drove north. Saddam's home town is still a hostile place for a lone Brit or American, he felt. I wasn't really listening. My attention was drawn to the surface-to-air missiles, apparently intact, still lying by the aside of the road six weeks after the war - a disquieting symbol of U.S. inactivity and the continuing lack of stability...
...petitioners wait for hours, sometimes days, for an audience. Several tribal dignitaries in long robes were ahead of us in the line. One asked Marwan where I was from. "Russia," Marwan said. After a short silence a wiry, sunburned man who looked in his fifties asked, in very good Russian, "So what's the weather like in Moscow?" We discussed this and that - the allergy season in Moscow, apartment prices, other very Russian things. I asked him where his Russian came from. "I studied there for six years," he said. Where I asked, and he paused for a second...
...tribal leaders left for their meeting with the Governor. "How are the Americans behaving here," I asked the colonel. While he spoke in Russian about the widespread belief that GIs steal the money they find during house to house searches, another person in the room - a Kurd, usually the most pro-American of Iraqis, was complaining of the same in Arabic. A new stereotype, that the GIs are on the take, has emerged here. Then it was our turn...