Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid being stoned, blindfolded two teenagers and tied them to the hoods of their jeeps. On Wednesday night Israelis were horrified by television footage of a man in civilian clothes firing an Uzi submachine gun into a crowd of rock-throwing Palestinians. He was later identified as an agent of Shin Bet, Israel's internal-security service. The agent will reportedly be disciplined, but officials appeared less upset by the act itself than by the fact that it was captured on film. At week's end the trouble spread to East Jerusalem, where mobs of Palestinian youths rioted through...
Friends describe Lee, a former real estate agent, as fiercely strong, striving through the rocky years to hold her family together. "I have always put my own personal feelings aside, because I believe in a person, not because he is my husband but because I have felt he has something to offer to this country," she said last week. Andrea adds, "We don't elect superhumans. We elect human beings who will make mistakes...
...message on the answering machine of USAir Ticket Agent Jacqueline Camacho in Los Angeles was from her estranged boyfriend. David Burke, 35, was also a USAir agent, who had been fired on Nov. 19 after he was caught stealing $69 from flight cocktail receipts by a hidden camera. Born in Britain of Jamaican parents, Burke had never married but had fathered seven children by four women. After his dismissal, he turned moody and violent. He had held Camacho and her six-year-old daughter at gunpoint on a forced six-hour auto drive the previous Friday, and he seemed particularly...
...couple. They met on the circuit, and their courtship included a lip-sync duet of Paradise by the Dashboard Light, which could loosely be described as a love song.) Asked about his future, Lovedart concedes that he's thought about putting together a portfolio and taking it to an agent. "But I don't know how I would handle the success." What he means is that he's already been on television, and it was hard to face all the strangers congratulating him afterward. "A lot of people think it takes talent," he muses. "To me, I don't think...
There are two funny cameos--Oprah Winfrey plays herself and Rob Reiner plays Larry's fast-talking agent Joel. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, making his movie debut as Larry's friend Lester, has a charming screen presence during his regrettably few screen minutes...