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...book (by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan) full of smart repartee, delivered at a brisk pace that forces listeners to swallow their laughter so they can hear the next line...
...There's been a brisk trade in books about double agent Robert Hanssen, including "The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History" by TIME Washington correspondents Ann Blackman and Elaine Shannon (Little, Brown). On October 29, Random House will publish "Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America" by David Wise. Kirkus is impressed, giving it a starred review. "A solidly paced, richly detailed account, by the intelligence-community insider Wise, of the FBI desk jockey who sold secrets to the Soviet...
Visit TIME.com every weekday for a brisk, incisive digest of--and links to--the five stories you need to know about. Daily Briefing is our editors' pick of the most thoughtful and intriguing news stories gathered from around...
...TIME.com every weekday for "Daily Briefing," our brisk, incisive rundown of the five stories you need to know about each day. This is not just a digest of breaking news; instead, "Daily Briefing" is our editors' pick of the best, most thoughtful and most interesting stories that show up each...
...perfect bookends for '60s sex. Metzger was the European sophisticate to Meyer's canny version of the all-American yahoo rube. Metzger's films were caresses, Meyer's were comic assaults. Metzger's languid tracking shots of fabulously decadent femmes suggested a heated-up Max Ophuls; Meyer, with his brisk shearing of every shot to milliseconds, was the redneck Resnais. Metzger was the elegant gent on a leisurely prowl of the haut monde, as fascinated by the d?cor of a bedroom as by the woman on the silk sheets; Meyer was the combat photographer getting snapshots of the carnal carnage...