Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secret police of the NKVD (predecessor of the KGB) and sentenced to Siberian exile. Some of his friends try to organize a protest petition. A few people sign it, but most find excuses not to. One of them becomes an informer for the NKVD and finally a full-fledged agent. Some of the most vivid scenes in the novel are detailed descriptions of NKVD investigations, arrests and interrogations...
Moscow has never fully explained either the circumstances of his death or why it had him arrested in the first place, though some historians suggest that the Soviets considered him a U.S. agent. Thus far the statue of Wallenberg, a gift of former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Nicolas Salgo, has drawn no official comment from Moscow or Budapest...
Cashin said it was only the cold weather that prevented her from wearing her gold and baby blue belly dancing outfit to the tryouts--the casting agent had to settle for a snapshot of her costume insted...
...trench coat is the unofficial uniform of two professions: foreign correspondent and intelligence agent. TIME National Security Correspondent Bruce van Voorst, who reported on this week's cover stories about the Marine spy scandal and the state of high-tech surveillance, knows intimately the wardrobe of both jobs. In 1955, fresh out of the University of Michigan with a & master's degree in Soviet studies, Van Voorst mulled over offers from the State Department and the CIA. The lure of the trench coat...
Gary Oldman looks spookily like Joe, with that puckish smile that told the world, "You want me to get away with it." Vanessa Redgrave has, and deserves, many of the best lines as Orton's sardonic agent. Bennett's script is a mine of epigrams and a model of construction (except for a framing device that portrays Lahr as an Orton manque and his wife as a pathetic Ken doll). But the workmanlike style of Director Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette) emphasizes the drab and the obvious. Frears cannot match the script's sleek malice, so he gets his laughs...