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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unknowing Foster, the last time from Washington: "I will admit to you that the reason I'm going ahead with this attempt now is because I just cannot wait any longer to impress you." Then he took a .22-cal. revolver and wounded Reagan, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy, Washington Policeman Thomas Delahanty and Press Secretary James Brady, who two weeks ago underwent a fourth major operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matched Pair of Gunmen | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...committee made its decision after reviewing videotapes and other evidence of the New Jersey Senator's dealings with undercover FBI agents. The tapes, which caused a sensation during Williams' trial in federal court last April, show him meeting with an agent dressed in sheik's clothes and boasting of his close ties to then President Carter and other officials. The panel, like the federal jury, concluded the Senator had abused his office by accepting a secret share in a Virginia titanium mine, attempting to obtain a $100 million loan for the venture, and promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ousting a Peer | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...former altar boy and the son of an ex-FBI agent, Boyce grew up in Palos Verdes, Calif., a well-heeled suburb of Los Angeles. He became disillusioned with America after Viet Nam and Watergate. While working as a communications clerk with top security clearance for TRW Inc. in nearby Redondo Beach, he and a friend decided to peddle classified information to the Soviet Union through its embassy in Mexico City. The pair sold $76,000 worth of secrets before they were caught in early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drop the Burger | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

Frank. Almost as sad as Lilly. A loyal, ungainly homosexual, a cynic and pedant who ends up as a successful literary agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...Orion Pictures has devoted $17 million to a modern farce about the hundreds of midgets and dwarfs who went to Hollywood to play the Oz Munchkins, and by their lewd shenanigans cut the town down to size. Rainbow's plot is serviceably convoluted, involving a Secret Service agent (Chevy Chase), a paranoid Graustarkian duke and his Sicilian assassin-in-waiting, a pair of Axis spies, 25 Japanese camera buffs, four dead dogs and 150 little people. (Make that 151: Carrie Fisher plays their den mother.) But Director Steve Rash's pacing is slack, the lighting is inappropriately murky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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