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...Matter of WHO. Agent Terry-Thomas of the World Health Organization in a cloak-and-needle WHOdunit about viruses and villains...
...Cloak & Luger...
...supposed to be incapable of acquiring even a veneer of upper-class manner and speech. But he does not capture enough of Dandin's vanity. The role is modeled on the stock Pantalone of Italian comedy, and Bolton wears Pantalone's traditional long beard and long black cloak...
Buying the name brands of soft goods is still hard for Korvette's because manufacturers who openly deal with discounters are often blackballed by conventional retailers. To get high-fashion goods, Ferkauf and Schwadron sometimes have to go through cloak-and-dagger maneuvers that the CIA might study with profit. Korvette's Fifth Avenue recently scored something of a coup by offering its customers Pringle of Scotland fur-trimmed cashmere cardigans for as little as $25.90 each, despite the fact that Pringle tries to hold the price to more than twice as much by refusing to sell...
...editors of news the government does not wish to be published for security reasons. Some of these matters are entirely petty, or so general as to be of no possible value to a foreign power. The system comforts only those, it seems to me, who require secrecy as a cloak for their blunders...