Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience travelling over the Thanksgiving holiday, so when I made my reservation for a night flight on Wednesday, I took the travel agent's snickering as a sign of goodwill...
Balson has a publishing agent in New York and says he hopes to have his book "on the shelves" when he graduates...
...original novel, written by coscreenwriter Gerald Petievich (a former Treasury agent) was an absorbing tortoise-and-he-hare yarn about two separate teams of T-men on the trail of the same master counterfeiter. But Freidkin kills off the tortoise (a sympathetic older cop on the eve of his retirement) in the first reel to provide Chance, his amoral anti-hero, with a stock revenge motive; yet he then fails to develop this element of the story. He cut out the emotional heart and balance of the book, and you can only assume that this is exactly what he wanted...
...TARGET, Matt Dillon plays a boy who learns for the first time when his mother is kidnapped that his unassuming father was once a top CIA agent. They team up and go to Europe to try to rescue mom from the clutches of dad's old cold war enemies, rekindling their moribund relationship and earning one another's respect at each step...
Although the sect leader was accused of immigration-law violations, INS Agent Joseph Green testified in Charlotte that the guru's followers were plotting to kill the U.S. Attorney in Portland and the Oregon attorney general if the Bhagwan was imprisoned. A week earlier, an Oregon grand jury filed attempted murder charges against Ma Anand Sheela, 35, the Bhagwan's former secretary. She had fled the commune in September, prompting accusations from Rajneesh that she had conspired to murder his physician. Sheela was arrested last week in West Germany. In addition to the attempted murder indictment, she too has been...