Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council's liaison to the Beat's booking agent was James Barber, music director of WHRB Barber said that by the time the Council was ready to put in a bid for the group, it was already scheduled to play five other nights directly before and after the date requested...
...valuable is Mantarov's account? The Bulgarian agent may or may not have told Mantarov the truth; Mantarov, in turn, may have distorted what he was told. The story breaks little new ground, but it does buttress previous reports. It has been speculated, for example, that the young man who had been spotted running from St. Peter's Square with a gun in his hand was there not to help Agca but to shoot him as soon as the Turk finished his deadly assignment...
...weeks ago, a travel agent found an extra bonus in the plan. A customer wanted to fly 140 miles from Valdosta, Ga., to Dothan, Ala. However, the $54 flight includes a stop more than 200 miles from either town, in Atlanta. Bingo! That meant a free pass to California. Word spread fast. The resulting stampede to Dothan included one high school senior who booked ten seats for himself and nine classmates so that they could take a trip after graduation...
...Hungarian-Jewish descent and a strikingly attractive woman from Oaxaca. Frida herself had a gamy beauty that drew lovers of both sexes. There seem to have been dozens of them, including Sculptor Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, the exiled Russian revolutionary who died in Mexico shortly after a Stalinist agent put the point of an ice ax through his head. Frida initiated the affair with Trotsky, not because she found "Piochitas" (little goatee) attractive but because she thought the trysts would be the perfect response to Rivera's fling with her sister...
...time to perfect his craft. Unable to come up with bail of $500,000, he has been in jail in Portland since September busily at work on his first novel, Drug War. The initial 300 pages of the manuscript have been ferried to a New York City literary agent by Mailer, who has been down this road before. Two years ago, Mailer was promoting and urging the parole of a prison author named Jack Henry Abbott (In the Belly of the Beast), who won release but later killed a Manhattan waiter. Stratton is no Abbott. Not only does he lack...