Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soap, offered wigs to cover their shaved heads. Their cells are temporarily transformed into elegant salons with foreign magazines on their coffee tables. When Mrs. Roosevelt picks out at random a man and asks what he is being punished for, the prison governor replies that he was a Gestapo agent who burned down a Russian village, raped Russian girls and murdered innumerable Russian babies. "Wasn't he sentenced to be hanged?" exclaims Eleanor. "No," is the straight-faced reply. "We hope to reform...
...Most of the grapes we feed the students are from California," Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant purchasing agent, said in an interview Tuesday. "We know there is some sort of moral issue involved and we are behind it, but our function here is to get the best grapes for our money...
...proved with last year's hit, The Flying Nun, that audiences will sit still for anything that is sufficiently inane, the network now exploits its advantage with television's first series about a transvestite, The Ugliest Girl in Town. The story deals with a young Hollywood talent agent (Peter Kastner) who is mad for an English starlet. He works his way to London as a bewigged model and becomes the hottest mannequin since Twiggy. Kastner admits that at first he feared the show "might be offensive and in bad taste." After screening the pilot, he became convinced that...
...central Negro area and after he's been called names and spit at, he'll be prejudiced." A City University of New York sociologist, Arthur Neiderhoifer, agrees that the very nature of a cop's duties tends to "transform him into an authoritarian agent of control." Neiderhoffer, a New York policeman for more than 20 years, writes in his book, Behind the Shield: "The hostility and fear that almost palpably press against a policeman in lower-class areas aggravate his impulse to 'get tough...
Denny means what he says. But before he could carry out such a threat, he would have a whole platoon of buffers to contend with. Now that the going is good, he is surrounded by a public relations man, a business agent, a lawyer and an accountant?all devoted to protecting him from himself. They are necessary. Fame has brought Denny fortune?and constant problems. At home, the phone is forever ringing with calls from people pleading with him to visit their store, appear at their nightclub, endorse their product. On the road, Denny's current roommate, Shortstop Ray Oyler...