Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, about halfway through the movie something big happens--if you want to know what, go see the movie--that changes everything. Suddenly Costner, who has netted a job at the Pentagon, is pitted against his boss, Hackman, in a battle that may or may not affect national security...
...arrive at the movie five minutes late and leave five minutes early will avoid the setup and payoff for the preposterous twist that spoils this lively, intelligent remake of 1948's The Big Clock. A naval officer (Kevin Costner) is assigned to investigate a murder committed by his boss, the Secretary of Defense (Gene Hackman, his honest face at odds with his twisted soul), but for which the officer is the prime suspect. Costner and the victim- to-be (gorgeous Sean Young) play a romping, stomping love scene in the backseat of a limousine as if no one had ever...
...State Shultz proclaimed that the Reagan-Wright plan was "not a ploy," there was reason for skepticism. The Administration has a history of announcing peace initiatives whenever contra funding is up for renewal. Late in 1984 a memo from John Poindexter, then Deputy National Security Adviser, to his boss, Robert McFarlane, set out a deceptive scheme: "Continue active negotiations but agree on no treaty and act to work out some way to support the contras either directly or indirectly. Withhold true objectives from staffs...
...waddle up to: whether a good soldier must kill a pretty young sniper (the unenticing Maryam d'Abo). Then it's off to Vienna, London, Tangier and Afghanistan -- the usual guided tour of In spots and hot spots, with a politically savvy cast of , adversaries. An honorable KGB boss and a duplicitous KGB agent. Afghan freedom fighters who push opium on the side. A renegade arms dealer who may remind you of General Secord's friend Edwin Wilson. And 007 in the middle, juggling global juggernauts like Ollie North, but with less piety and more smarts...
...Irving, Texas. In a series of confidential board minutes for November and December 1986, subsequently obtained by TIME, no numbers are listed for the bonus granted to Jim and Tammy and to Richard Dortch, a top aide who joined PTL in 1984 and was defrocked along with his boss in the wake of the Hahn scandal. Instead, on an attached piece of Jim Bakker's stationery are listed bonuses totaling $800,000 for the preacher, $175,000 for his wife and $175,000 for Dortch...