Word: agent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just as ham-fisted hoodlums are about to ignite the subpoenaed accounts of a corrupt union, federal agents burst in, guns drawn. Then, with split-second timing, other teams of FBI men miles away sweep up crooked businessmen, racketeers and a tainted state investigator. One key arrest comes after a manic broken-field chase through the pushcarts and costermongers of New York's Fulton Fish Market. The villain is nabbed just in time to save the life of an undercover agent whose fake identity has been blown...
...show's characters do not much resemble the gray-suited, close-cropped, lantern-jawed, devout, straight-arrow white males preferred by longtime Director J. Edgar Hoover, who had iron control of the earlier series, personally approving every actor cast as an FBI agent to be sure he "looked the part." The ensemble includes a black recruited from military intelligence, played in the pilot by Charles Brown and afterward by Harold Sylvester; a smashing-looking woman psychologist who teaches pistol-marks-personship (Carol Potter); a salon-coiffed, hip-talking pretty boy (Joseph Cali); and a sarcastic, ever grinning preppie athlete...
...seems horrible, yet not really surprising when, in Cain's classic Postman, a shiftless drifter named Frank Chambers takes a job with the owner's wife, and with her plots to kill him. Nor is it surprising in Double Indemnity, when Walter Huff, an unsuccessful insurance agent, falls in love with one of his clients' wives, and plots with her to kill her husband...
Harvard sports fans recognized STEPHANIE WALSH, former women's swim coach, who dropped by to watch the women's soccer team maul B.U., 9-0, October 12. Walsh now sells insurance in Boston for Equitable Life and received "Agent of the Month" honors for September. Says Walsh, who jogs and swims, "I'm happy, but busy...
...controversial topic taken up at the conference was the relationship between gas cooking and respiratory health. Some studies have linked the presence of gas stoves in homes and reduced lung function in children. Nitrogen dioxide, one of the by-products of gas combustion, has long been thought the causative agent...