Word: cloaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muller had second thoughts, and so did the bank. There then ensued a cloak-and-dagger operation. If any property owners on the block had known the identity of the buyer, their asking prices would have skyrocketed and, as Schnabel recalls, "the whole deal would have died. It took guts for the bank to say, 'We're going to do this.' It was risky as hell...
...theater post last March. Enter Australian Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, who hired Barnes for his afternoon paper, the New York Post. Says the Oxford-educated Barnes: "Anyone attached to the New York Times has a kind of instant credibility and instant glamour. One wonders how much that is a cloak bestowed by the paper and how much it is one's own. I felt it was more challenging to be without the Times rather than with the Times." Better yet, Barnes gets back on the aisle...
...Healys and buxom blonde starlets do not impress John le Carre. The veteran British spy novelist writes fiction, not fantasy; the fast cars and bikini-clad counterspies that dominate the pleasantly foolish world of James Bond and Matt Helm have no-place in his books. To le Carre, the cloak-and-dagger game is really a business, and the men and women who work at it are hardly likely to decorate cinema marquees...
...cousins" he runs up against, but also against his own training and beliefs. What results is an intense emotional conflict to play counterpoint to the usual shoot-em-up spy duel, a remarkable spy story that ruthlessly dissects the tortured moral rationalizations that make up the mind of a cloak-and-dagger king...
Keep life out in the open. It doesn't do too well when disguised Someday you'll have to face the cold facts Stripped of your cloak of dreams. And though it tears deep into your flesh, It's up to you never to forget That your life is in the living of it--And after winter, comes spring...