Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What an exhausting five-year run it has been for backwater insurance agent turned blockbuster novelist Tom Clancy. Forget the four straight best sellers published since 1984 and the 20 million copies sold. Forget the movie version of his first novel, now in production. Forget the $4 million advance for his latest thriller, Clear and Present Danger. Forget such crass calculus of cash- register commerce...
...that really the case? During two days of hearings on his nomination, a coalition of civil rights organizations assailed Lucas for his lack of qualifications. The former FBI agent and Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan conceded that he "was new to the law." A practicing attorney for only two years, he had never tried a case, written a brief or argued an appeal. Most damaging, Lucas displayed a woeful ignorance of basic civil rights issues. Asked about the distinction between de facto (actual) and de jure (legal) segregation, Lucas drew a blank. "If it had been a white...
...with aliens from space. In multiple productions it showed scant commercial potential. In addition to the screenplay for M. Butterfly, which Hwang will write himself, he is working on three other films: a TV movie for PBS, which he will also direct, about a love affair between an FBI agent and the daughter of a man he hounded to death; "a Victorian rock musical about Oscar Wilde"; and a semiadventure set in Tibet. For the stage, he and Glass hope to adapt Andre Malraux's novel of revolutionary China in the 1920s, Man's Fate, and Hwang is also writing...
...president and State Department claim there is a video of Bloch handing a suitcase to a Soviet agent. The feds say it probably contained classified documents, which helps to explain why Bloch has been receiving so much CIA and FBI attention lately...
Bloch, on Bush's orders, gave the suitcase to an agent of the CIA, not the KGB. That agent, in turn, brought the case to the youth group with which Ollie North is performing his court-ordered community service. Imitating "Uncle Ollie," the kids immediately shredded the bag's contents...