Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magnifique. Philip de Broca sets out to do to the spy thriller what he did to the World War I genre in King of Hearts. In America, Mel Brooks would be the likely candidate to take off on this secret agent silliness, one thinks--until one remembers that he did, with Get Smart on TV. And that's what this movie looks like at first, a French Get Smart, only with the added attraction of Belmondo's sexy grimaces and Jacqueline Bisset's--well, Jacqueline Bisset. But Brooks will joy-buzz you all night with this sort of thing (every...
...have always applauded Mr. Nader as the consumer's advocate, but having spent several years sweating away as a travel agent, I have no sympathy for his being bumped...
...Agent in Place, MacInnes...
...conversation with another man in a Tallahassee shopping center rest room that was under police observation as a homosexual meeting place. The pair, said Morrison, drove off in Carswell's car and parked in a wooded area where Carswell "actually and intentionally" touched his companion, a police undercover agent who responded by making an arrest. Carswell, who is married and has four children, has denied any wrongdoing...
...officials told TIME that as many as 150 agents had a hand in between 75 and 100 bag jobs. A few occurred before Hoover's death in May 1972, but many took place under Acting Director L. Patrick Gray, who resigned in disgrace during the Watergate scandal. Gray refused to comment, but Malone has acknowledged that the list "could have been" in his safe. Some FBI officials suspect that Gray was pressured by the Nixon White House to approve the use of bag jobs. As one agent explained the rationale: "These Weathermen were bomb throwers. The pressure...