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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Someone asks whether his success has been a burden. "Less so than unsuccess," he replies. Another member of the audience wants to send her screenplay to an agent. "Should I just address the script?," she presses. "I'd put an address on it, yes." he says. Someone else inquires how he distinguishes writing a play from writing a film script. He makes a few thoughtful remarks, pauses, and then adds, "Also, I write the words 'a film' on the screenplay's title page...

Author: By Troy Segal and Michael E. Silver, S | Title: A Man of Wit and Wisdom | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...just that the magazine might give valuable information to opponents of the U.S. Most CIA operatives have probably already been pinpointed by the Soviet KGB and other spy agencies. But publicity makes it difficult for these or other CIA agents to maintain valuable contacts with businessmen, scholars, journalists and other sources. As serious is the possibility of the magazine's incorrectly identifying an agent. Said one senior CIA official: "Whether or not the people they mention are with the agency, they've done these people great harm." Added CIA Director Stansfield Turner: "I also wonder where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Deadly Crusade | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...wrote Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, "the content of the book didn't inspire the level of enthusiasm ..." After a long delay, Random House sent a form letter, and an editor at William Morrow postscripted a consolation: "Sorry, I liked the opening gambit. Why don't you find an agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polish Joke | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. Susan Ford, 21, photographer and only daughter of former President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford; and Charles Frederick Vance, 37, Secret Service agent who met his bride in June 1977 while guarding her father; she for the first time, he for the second; in Palm Desert, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...again, Cauthen may need to regain his almost mystical touch, the energy he seemed to communicate to horses through his skilled oversize hands. Then again, ex-Agent Goodman may have the best prescription: "Fast horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steve's Slump | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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