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Word: agent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alone, or as the agent of unknown others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hand of Terrorism | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...cast and crew; a week later he was back-unshaven, disheveled, distraught-to confess that his behavior had put his career in jeopardy with "the show-business community," then sobbed and fell silent. Was he serious? Is he mad? Perhaps he was once again playing the Duchampian agent provocateur of modern comedy: the Dada of haha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Comedy's Post-Funny School | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...Writer, Newark-born Nathan Zuckerman has made a million dollars with Carnovsky, an ethnic and sexual extravaganza that resembles Portnoy's Complaint. Zuckerman's problem is not sex but a reluctance to indulge in the conventional rewards of his money and fame. Says André Schevitz, his agent: "First you lock yourself away in order to stir up your imagination, now you lock yourself away because you've stirred up theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Million-Dollar Misunderstanding | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...Aktuelle was publishing what it described as transcripts of several telephone conversations that were secretly taped while Charles was touring Australia last month. The magazine said it had purchased the transcripts from a Munich literary agent who had obtained them from the British agent of Freelancer Simon Regan. Regan, 38, a longtime contributor to the sensation-seeking News of the World and antimonarchist author of Charles-The Clown Prince, said he got the tapes from an unidentified Australian who had bugged the Prince to embarrass the monarchy. But Regan insisted that he had not authorized their sale. As Die Aktuelle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Bugging Charles | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...back to Buckley, who right now is one of four quarterbacks on the New England roster, along with ailing Steve Grogan, Matt Cavanaugh and possible free-agent Tom Owen. The mathematics aren't bad: "Erhardt says he wants to go with three quarterbacks," Buckley said, "and if Owen leaves there may be a spot. This seems to be the ideal situation, and if I show them what I can do, maybe I can catch...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Fame and Flame | 5/13/1981 | See Source »

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