Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Convoluting the plot further, Stone's middle-aged mistress and her dumb-stud pal decide to blackmail the fashion mogul. While trying to videotape Stone murdering his wife, they succeed only in filming the local police chief with a prostitute in his car. Here, the movie attempts to develop the characters, depicting the plotting woman and her friend as too sensitive to watch the alleged murder on the videotape...
...winning a reprieve from exile. Said Louis: "She went abroad for medical treatment, but she is seeing politicians, not doctors. Her political activities have undermined the situation. She's lost any sense of reality." After meeting briefly with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in London, Bonner dismissed Louis' remarks as "blackmail...
...everyone in this play gets what he wants only through deceit or treachery, not least of all Fairfax, who uses his good looks and gentlemanly heroic manner to impress every man and enrapture any woman who crosses his path. In this world, marriages are contracted via the forces of blackmail, not true love, and the essential work of all involved--seeing to the imprisonment, torture and execution of prisoners of the crown--is never questioned...
...industry executives are concerned about security. They fear that addicts on the payroll might sell defense secrets to support their habits. Moreover, because criminal narcotics-possession charges could lead to the loss of security clearances necessary for many jobs in the defense industry, drug abusers are extremely vulnerable to blackmail. Says R. Richard Heppe, the president of Lockheed California: "We do a lot of highly classified work here, and people with these problems are much higher security risks...
...episode filmed yesterday focuses on a fictional Harvard chemistry professor developing synthetic narcotics for biochemical research. Under threat of blackmail by organized crime sources eager to use her research for criminal means, the professor enlists Spenser...