Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was 15, Mohammed was sent to the province of Khurasan as financial agent, for his apprenticeship in public service. When he returned to Teheran ten years later, a shrewd, aloof young official, the Shah granted him the title "Mossadeq" ("One who has been tried, tested and found to be worthy...
...more popular than ever. In 1944 he put through a bill forbidding the government to grant an oil concession to anyone without legislative permission. Since this was aimed at the Russians, who were trying to extract an oil concession in northern Iran, the Iranian Communists called Mossadeq a British agent. He never got over the insult...
...order to break off the love affair. The real dope, whispers the new picture confidentially, is that the Prince (Jean Marais) and Marie Vetsera (Dominique Blanchar) were victims of a political intrigue. They planned suicide, all right, even left notes. But after they changed their minds, a German agent slipped into the bedroom and finished the job with his pistol...
...redhead named Guinevere, who rambles on about past loves and lovers like a debased edition of Joyce's Molly Bloom. She teases, then repulses Mikey, ostensibly because of her husband McLeod, a gaunt, backslid Stalinist. Actually, she is having an affair with another tenant, Hollingsworth, a sadistic Government agent. A late entry in the sexual sweepstakes is Lannie, a Lesbian ex-Trotskyite with a touch of insanity who makes "strange" love to all but McLeod...
Riffling the dead leaves of a bankrupt dream, neo-Marxist Mailer sees one faint hope, "socialist culture." This idea, which ex-Stalinist McLeod passes on to Lovett as a heritage-just before Government Agent Hollingsworth does him in-seems to be the precious "little object" the poor fellow has been nursing all along...