Word: agente
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...kind of guy turned out to be a '90s kind of spy. Roque was a Castro agent, and his marriage to Martinez was simply a page from his espionage manual. On Feb. 23, 1996, Roque left Martinez, and three days later he surfaced in Cuba. That was right after Castro's air force, using intelligence gathered in part by Roque, shot down two small unarmed planes off Havana, killing four anti-Castro Cuban-exile activists (from the group Brothers to the Rescue) who were piloting them. Watching TV, Martinez was stunned to see Roque tell a reporter that what...
...home address and phone number and said she was interested in sado-sexual fantasies. At one point, Hitchcock was getting 30 phone calls a day. She was repeatedly mail-bombed--barraged with enough e-mails to shut down her computer. Her stalker also mail-bombed her husband, her literary agent and her colleagues at the University of Maryland...
...slight, autobiographical piece (with a script worked over by David Auburn, author of Proof) about the struggling composer's own angst at reaching his 30th birthday. Yet this Portrait of the Artist as a Young Neurotic makes up for its self-involvement (Jon tries to get his agent on the phone; Jon gets an encouraging phone call from Stephen Sondheim) with sincerity and self-deprecating wit, along with Larson's passionate, rock-inspired music. He was trying to push the musical into new territory; Tick, Tick...Boom! is a heartfelt, oddly uplifting glimpse of a sadly unfulfilled innovator...
...wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge, getting to the dead center of all human stories, "is an evil which has its ground or origin in the agent, and not in the compulsion of circumstances...
...Where do we draw the line? Who was the evil agent, and who was acting under "the compulsion of circumstances...