Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief cloak and bottle washer was and is Actress Rhea Perlman, whom he met when she visited him backstage in 1970. A few weeks later she moved in. "It wasn't impulse," DeVito insists. "It just made sense. I had an apartment, and she supported me." Perlman, a scrappy 5 ft. 1 in., co-stars as the lonely termagant Carla, a kind of female Louie DePalma, on NBC's Cheers; posed together, Carla and Louie could be figurines on the Grinch's wedding cake. But Rhea and Danny have made better luck. They have lived together for 16 years...
...agency set up dummy corporations through which Wilson funneled goods and services to foreign groups deemed friendly to the U.S. But according to Maas' account, the CIA looked the other way after Wilson left the agency to become an entrepreneur. To the author, Wilson is a sort of cloak-and-dagger Great Gatsby, although there is nothing romantic about his exploits. Manhunt is about naked greed, a tale full of knaves and sociopaths pursuing a twisted dream of private enterprise...
...Their weathered faces suggested that some fellowship of older folk, maybe retirees, had assembled in Washington's Hilton Hotel last week. They were, instead, veterans of what President Ronald Reagan called "a twilight war." What bonded them and brought them together was the storied Office of Strategic Services, the cloak-and-dagger agency that was born in World War II and led to the formation...
Opponents of licensing argue that it is merely a cloak to cover government censorship and that it threatens independent reporting. As one example, they point to the 1983 expulsion from Honduras of John Lantigua, an American reporter for United Press International, on the ground that he was not a union member. Lantigua was expelled while working on a story about a secret jail where political prisoners were said to be tortured. In a deliberate effort to break the system, Schmidt, then an investigative reporter for San Jose's English language Tico Times and for the Spanish language daily La Prensa...
...Four Friends, but what's emerged was an unhappy hybrid of character and action. At unexpected moments, in well-observed snatches of behavior and individual shots, just enough character is conveyed and just enough emotional content to keep the audience aware of something more than the standard cloak-and-dagger thriller. And the plot does have a few well-chosen twists before it goes on cruise control and coasts to an unsatisfying climax--an extended last shot misfires badly as the reunited family is upstaged by an explosion in the background destroying the heavies in a fiery conflagration...