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Donovan's love of ingenuity was infectious. William Duff, a retired book publisher who was sent to Algiers to recruit agents for spying in France, recalls one example: "We had a chap in Cairo who designed a land mine that looked remarkably like a camel turd. He put it in the diplomatic pouch and sent it to London. I'm not sure they knew quite what to make of it." Thibaut de Saint Phalle, now a director of the Export-Import Bank, discovered that Chinese pirates were very adept at blowing up Japanese ships, and he went...
That's the way things go in Monty Python's Life of Brian. The film is a send-up biblical epic recounting the biography of a chap born in the manger down the alley from the one people sing about each Christmas. Brian (Graham Chapman) is just a regular guy. He has a domineering mother, basically cowardly nature and no messianic complex whatever. But circumstances force him into contact with, among others, a lisping Pilate, an underground revolutionary group that spends more time in ideological debate than in overthrowing the Romans, and all sorts of people who think...
...turns out, Tyng was involved in a precedent-setting event in golf as well as in baseball. In the 1898 U.S. Amateur, Tyng, who was known for his volatile temperament, was purposely kept waiting for over an hour on the first tee by his opponent, a chap named Foxhall Keene. Tyng predictably lost the match and ever since, players who arrive late for their matches are disqualified...
...first encounter is with a nice chap (Richard Jordan) whose wife has just deserted him. Diane has no difficulty in rekindling old feelings, but she cannot resist deserting him, too. Next she looks up the parody stud (John Belushi) who sexually humiliated her in high school, and finds a way of getting even. At her final destination she finds not an old flame (he has been killed in Viet Nam) but his almost psychotic younger brother (Keith Carradine), who has taken the blame for his brother's death on himself. Diane lures him into a sexual relationship that...
...local bird-brain millionaress for her money. The sibling cherubs are truly in dire straits, having been evicted from their apartment, but are adjusting well to the street ("a nice policeman is acting as our butler"). Their problems are solved when Susie, the sister, falls in love with a chap disguised as a hobo, who is in fact about to inherit a swanky hotel. Also singing and dancing across the stage are a lessthan-scrupulous lawyer, a Mexican bandit, a stern uncle, a cooing couple and assorted chorus members. The folderol produces no fewer than four marriages, as well...