Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Madison was reminded that his literary agent had come down from New York. Though he loathed the power lunch scene at Duke Zwilling's Tavern, Madison felt compelled to put on a good show. Speedy Lorenz had brought along a top editor from Rumpole House to discuss publication of Madison's proposed Essays on Federalism. The protocols of a proper business meal were followed scrupulously: aimless discussion of the New York theater season (all British imports), summer houses (expensive) and the servant problem (dire) until coffee was mercifully served. Only then did the editor, Michael Lordover, come to the point...
Some tourism officials fear that Europe is popular now only because, as one Greek travel agent put it, "nothing has happened this year." So a brief wave of anxiety was provoked by terrorist incidents in Rome two weeks ago, when rockets were fired at the British and U.S. embassies and a car bomb went off outside the American compound. But since little damage was done and no one was injured, vacationers took the news in stride. It will apparently take more serious trouble than that to spoil the festive return of Americans to Europe...
Like the TV show that spawned it, The Untouchables dramatizes the holy war that Federal Agent Eliot Ness (Costner) proclaimed against Chicago's racketeers in the waning years of the Volstead Act. Al Capone (De Niro), with the police and politicians in his silk pocket, runs the city, abetted by gun- crazy Frank Nitti (Billy Drago). Ness's "untouchable" aides are an Italian- American sharpshooter (Andy Garcia), a bespectacled accountant (Charles Martin Smith) and an aging cop, Jimmy Malone (Connery). Malone is a father figure, an Obi-Wan Kenobi to Ness's Luke Skywalker, alerting him to the ways...
Prisoner No. 08237054 is Edwin P. Wilson, 59, the freebooting former CIA agent who has served five years of a 52-year sentence for providing arms and explosives to Libyan Ruler Muammar Gaddafi and plotting to kill his federal prosecutors. One reason for his absorption with the TV spectacular is that he knows so many members of the cast and has such a definite opinion about them. Many of his former associates, says Wilson, ought to be exactly where...
...after all, money which is usually the pivotal agent in creating ethically problematic scholarship, and if one response of the FAS has been to edge away from controversial academic areas, administrators say another tactic has been to make the existing rules governing the acceptance of grant money more and more inclusive...