Word: agent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this long novel, her first in ten years, Dame Rebecca, 73, examines that most unscrupulous of all traitors, the double agent. To say that The Birds Fall Down is a spy story is only to measure the distance between its author and, say, Eric Ambler. Dame Rebecca grants few if any concessions to the literary appetites that batten on furious pace, high action and calculated suspense. Her study is a labyrinthine exercise exploring the riddle of a man who lives on the blood of both enemy and friend...
...wealthy Afrikaner farmer, he studied law at Stellenbosch University, turned up in 1941 as a 25-year-old "general" in South Africa's pro-Nazi underground, the Ossewa Brandwag (Ox-Wagon Guard). Spouting his admiration for Hitler and contempt for democracy, he was arrested as a Nazi agent in 1942, spent 14 months in a dusty internment camp at Koffiefontein in the Orange Free State. So extremist were his ideas that not even the Nationalists could stomach them at first. In 1948, the party turned down his application for membership on the ground that he "believed in the authoritarian...
According to standard art-market plots, Millar should have kept mum, sent an unknown agent to the auction and picked up a six-figure painting for a three-figure pittance. But as a public-service scholar and a proper servant of the Crown, he says, his only ethical course was to get the painting properly identified. Besides, as he somewhat testily adds, the Crown collection "already has a great number of Rubenses." Millar sought out Christie's Carritt, diffidently asked: "Isn't that a rather important picture you've got in your sale?" Carritt took a quick...
Tuesday, September 13 THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The female, naturally, is far more deadly, as U.N.C.L.E. Agent Stefanie Powers takes over Tuesday's Thrush threats...
...climax comes at the site of the clot, where the navigator (Donald Pleasence) turns out to be an enemy agent, hijacks the sub, and tries to kill the patient by ramming a neural ganglion. Not a second too soon, Hemonaut Boyd sinks the sub with the laser gun. The villain is then devoured, head first, by a white cell that resembles a large, aggressive hominy grit. Whereupon the survivors follow the optic nerve until they squirt out of the tear duct and are rescued from a teardrop that looks like Lake Michigan. And then back, BACK, BACK to normal size...