Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a third character in the sequence described above, the girl Jeanne who is the agent of Michel's salvation. Like Michel, she permits herself to be degraded. After he flees Paris, she becomes pregnant by his friend Jim, but unlike Michel she does not permit herself to believe in her own degradation and refuses Jim's offer of marriage. Whenever a sequence includes both Jeanne and Michel the ligthing becomes fantastically complex, creating dark and light areas through which the characters continually move. It is only at the end, when separated by the bars of the prison...
...Since Kuznetsov speaks no English, the Moscow Writers' Union had provided a translator, Georgy Andja-pazidze, a postgraduate student in English who is a Communist youth-club officer at the University of Moscow. Kuznetsov felt certain that Andjapazidze was what Russians call a mamka (nanny), a secret-police agent who was supposed to keep an eye on him. During the first four days, Kuznetsov behaved like a model Communist. On the fifth evening, during a tourist's stroll through Soho's lurid strip joints, Kuznetsov said that he wanted to find a prostitute. Andjapazidze discreetly left...
Sour Tips. Quite a few investors protest too much. "I'm wiped out, man," says Larry Thomas, 26, an Atlanta insurance agent. In fact, he has a profit. The computer stock that he bought at 12 on a tip from a friend now sells at about 141, and his $9,600 initial investment is worth around $11,600. That, however, is less than one-third of the $37,600 he counted on paper last spring, when the stock briefly touched...
...genuine. A Portland, Ore., printer borrowed heavily to buy a new issue of a computer manufacturer at 5. When the stock dropped to 21, his loan was called, forcing him to sell. Altogether, he lost about half of his $2,000 investment. Sylvan Fry, 53, a manufacturer's agent, began investing for the first time last winter, buying oil, chemical and computer issues. On paper he has already lost $6,500 of the $11,400 that he started with. George Ratliff Jr., 39, a Pittsburgh steel-company engineer, began 1969 with a portfolio worth $16,900, has seen...
Ranging around the Southwest, Director Hopper abruptly changed into a budget-watching craftsman. He avoided expensive featherbedding by hiring personnel outside the regular Hollywood trade unions, and used friends who worked for scale. He surrounded them with ordinary passersby whose faces no Central Casting agent could reproduce...