Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HUDDLED TOGETHER in a clear plastic cubicle, "The Dome of Silence", at CONTROL Headquarters, the Chief, Agent 86, and 99 plot strategy to thwart the latest move by the evil forces of CHAOS...
FROM THOSE grossly distorted productions which misrepresent his work and endanger his reputation a playwright does deserve protection. But the only way to ensure this protection is to state in acceptable limits of interpretation explicitly in contracts with literary agents. If Samuel Beckett felt so strongly about the setting of Endgame, the licensing agent could then have warned the ART of Beckett's criterin and prevented an unnecessary controversy...
Lightner, then 33, a divorced real estate agent with two other children, heard that judgment as she was on her way to a dinner with friends on the eve of her daughter's funeral. She was still furious when she joined them in a cocktail lounge as they waited for a table. It was there, of all places, that she decided to do something. "I remember sitting in the bar with all these people and saying out loud, 'I'm going to start an organization.' Just like that. There was this big moment of silence, and then my girlfriend pipes...
...murder trial begins next week, however, the focus will be not on the suspect but on his victim. Whatever the immediate cause of the killing, Cooperman's case has already exposed a tale of sex and international intrigue. Defense Attorney Alan May argues that Cooperman, 48, was a secret agent for Viet Nam. Indeed, Hanoi has accused the CIA of masterminding the death. Cooperman's friends and relatives ridicule such allegations, but they too think the shooting was political: the professor's well-known sympathy for the Communist regime in Hanoi made him highly unpopular among Vietnamese immigrants in Fullerton...
...baseball's longstanding conscience. "In all history, these fans in Chicago have been the least affected by bad ball clubs, but television teams have to win." If anyone questions whether the Chicago players are fundamentally baseball or television stars, consider the remarkable fact that the Cubs of the free-agent era jumped ten places, to fourth in payroll spending last year. Soon 100% attendance at Wrigley Field may not be enough...