Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troops surrounded Hernandez's heavily guarded house in Ciudad Madero, northeast of Mexico City. Whether authorities first attempted to arrest Hernandez without force is unclear; what is beyond dispute is that the lawmen used a bazooka to blast open the front door. When the battle was over, a federal agent lay dead and Hernandez and about a dozen other union officials and bodyguards were under arrest...
...share of life's shocks, a heart that has taken a licking and keeps on ticking. He can play the stern father or the doting uncle, a bad cop or a top sergeant, your best friend or the man you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy. As agent Anderson, Hackman plays what he is: the average Joe's best image of himself...
...Clyde (Buck Barrow, Clyde's elder brother), The French Connection (an Oscar as New York cop Popeye Doyle), Scarecrow (on the road with Al Pacino), The Conversation (Francis Coppola's study of a lonely surveillance expert), Under Fire (as a TIME correspondent in Nicaragua) and Mississippi Burning. His FBI agent bears traces of early Hackmen. Anderson, like Buck Barrow, repeats favorite anecdotes and plays dumber than he is; like Popeye, he wears stumpy ties and catches bad guys on his own obsessive terms. And at the end of each sentence you hear the Hackman laugh: nervous, infectious, conspiratorial...
...truth is that Hoover loathed blacks and detested their leaders, and so did many of his men. According to an agent quoted by Hoover's biographer Richard Gid Powers, during the early '60s "in about 90% of the situations in which bureau personnel referred to Negroes, the word 'nigger' was used." Until 1962 there were only five black FBI agents: Hoover's chauffeurs, houseboy and messenger. During the period dealt with in Burning, Hoover's bureau was indeed engaged in a lawless campaign against an enemy. But its target was Martin Luther King Jr. It began with wiretaps and buggings...
...when his daughter would return from Bradbury Brothers Market and announce, "The Filipinos are here." This meant that the Vice President's household staff was preparing for his arrival. Things change. "Now it looks like a damned convention for the hearing impaired," observes Brigham, a local real estate agent, about the swarm of Secret Service men sporting earphones when Bush is in Kennebunkport...