Chapter 13
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She stays till the flight is called
This is significant because after 9/11 (only a couple months away now), only ticketed passengers can go through security in an airport and wait by the gate.
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My best to Siegfried and Roy.
A popular Vegas magic act.
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Bringing them to a standoff, ethnicity of your choice.
Plays on the idea of a Mexican standoff--a situation in which three armed people are all pointing guns at each other. Read more here.
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Igor Dashkov
This fictional character appears to possibly be based on the real-life Yegor Lavroff. See here.
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Marie of Roumania
Marie of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was Queen consort of Romania from 1914 to 1927, as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania. She was called Missy by her family.
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
And I am Marie of Romania.
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
–Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
mi gratto la pancia
Italian for "I scratch his belly."
khuem grushi okolachivat
Russian, literally means "knocking pears out of a pear tree with your dick." But it's used in Russian to refer to someone who's being lazy or messing around unproductively or (see Italian phrase above) scratching his belly.
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Bernie Madoff
Operated the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history. Arrested in 2008. Read more here.
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