Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House speechwriter, Buchanan was a kind of in-house agent provocateur, seeking to move Nixon away from the moderate center. His mission, then as now, was to make conservatism the dominant strain of the Republican Party. Buchanan sought to capture George Wallace's constituency for the Republican Party. As early as 1970, he was advising Nixon to exploit the roiling economic anxieties of the middle class for political gain, the same voters to whom he is singing his siren song now. "We should aim our strategy primarily at disaffected Democrats, at blue-collar workers, and at working-class ethnics...
...State Department spokesman proclaimed, "It's shameful that an American citizen, much less a major religious leader in the U.S., would cavort with dictators like Gaddafi." The Justice Department warned that if reports of his pact with Gaddafi are true, Farrakhan may have to register as a Libyan agent...
...surprised by Carson's retirement and egged on by Leno's aggressive manager, Helen Kushnick (Kathy Bates), promised the job to Jay without comprehending how it would upset Dave. Letterman, who felt he was entitled to the Tonight post but was unwilling to fight for it, hired a new agent, Michael Ovitz (Treat Williams), who orchestrated the bidding war that had NBC, at the last minute, desperately trying to win back Letterman with a promise of the Tonight job after...
...sublimely unconscious of their own silliness are Nicholas Farrell's Tom, engaged to play Laertes, but full of intellectual pretense ("Hamlet is Bosnia..."), and Julia Sawalha's Ophelia, stumbling about because she refuses to wear glasses onstage. Joan Collins does such a nice turn as a high-powered agent that one fancies she might make a go of acting if writing novels continues to sour for her. Branagh sometimes sacrifices bite to the sentiment so endemic to show biz. But this bustling, affectionately knowing film is never slow...
...Bill Dal Col, who runs the upstart Forbes campaign, makes decisions on the fly like the head of an entrepreneurial start-up. Scott Reed, who oversees the Dole campaign, supervises his forces like the CEO of a FORTUNE 500 company. Dal Col shadows his candidate like a Secret Service agent, huddling with Forbes to make hour-to-hour decisions. Reed talks by phone with Dole at least twice a day and consults his commanders by conference call. One is a hands-on operator; the other an arm's-length manager. "Bill wants to be aboard the space shuttle," says longtime...