Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fans of the Baltimore Orioles, for those or us who have lived and died with the Birds since the first time we saw Brooks Robinson glove a hard shot at third base, last Thursday's free-agent draft came as a mortal blow. Expected, yes, but deadly nevertheless...
Before he hastily decamped for Korea, Park admitted to an associate that he gave up to $10,000 each to some Congressmen because "he liked them." Denying any formal ties to the South Korean government, Tongsun Park also told associates, "I'm not an agent, but that Suzi Thomson-there's an agent if I ever...
...Hecht and Charles MacArthur. (They were under contract to another studio and, Hepburn suggested, couldn't sell a script under their own names.) Mayer bit and the screenplay by Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. went into production with the two baby authors making bundles and Hepburn taking an agent's cut. The film was a huge success and the screenplay won an Academy Award for Kanin and Lardner. The movie is legendary for many reasons, some of which have to do with the famous love affair between Tracy and Hepburn. The acting is superlative, beautiful really, and its precision...
Sabotage (1936) is by far the best of the lesser known British Hitchcocks--those which are shown less frequently than the 39 Steps or The Lady Vanishes. Sabotage Is Hitchcock's version of Conrad's The Secret Agent (not to be confused with Hitchcock's The Secret Agent, which in fact has nothing to do with the Conrad novel, as well as being a bomb to be avoided at all costs despite the claim that it is Hitchcock's favorite of his British films, oft-repeated in unscrupulous advertising.) Sabotage must also be distinguished from Saboteur, an American film Hitchcock...
When I read that police agent Lawrence J. Fennelly told Pennypackerites they could not have iron bars placed over their windows due to safety considerations in case of fire, I immediately became concerned. For on my first floor windows in Lowell House I not only have iron bars, but I also have screens and super-duper storm windows. And all of this is in addition to the existing mullioned windows...