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...even survived his spectacular flameout after Watergate to become an elder statesman of the Republican Party. But his role in history remains enigmatic. An unlikelier politician would be hard to concoct: reserved, secretive, glowering, as awkward at backslapping and glad-handing as an android at a stag party. Yet he became the most durable public figure in postwar American life, five times a candidate for national office and four times a winner. How could this have happened? The question can be interpreted as friendly or hostile; anyone interested in the recent past must ask it and look for answers...
...Hungary, homeless addicts jam the underground pedestrian passageways of Budapest's Moscow Square, and dealers ply the stairways, offering everything from hashish to morphine-laced pills. In Poland, groups of addicts travel to the outskirts of Warsaw to buy sacks of poppy stalks from farmers, which they use to concoct homemade heroin. And in the Soviet Union, a young man rolls up his sleeve to show television viewers an inner forearm riddled with needle marks...
Kaku and his classmates had counted on the chance to attend graduate school and pursue careers. Then they learned they had four months until graduation to plan to become professional soldiers or concoct medical excuses...
Enter Frank (Chris Haywood), the gruff voice of experience. Fresh out of prison, he is anxious to concoct a new get-rich-quick scheme. Malcolm needs a broader. Frank needs an innocent, unsuspecting landlord. A match made in heaven...
...famous movie director and his popular actress wife are abducted in Hong Kong by thugs working for a dictator's son, who wants the stars to add some luster to his own film productions. They refuse to help him and are locked up for five years. Finally, they concoct an escape plan that calls for them to play the role of their lives. They agree to make the dictator's propaganda films, but then at the first opportunity they escape to the West through Vienna with $2.3 million of the dictator's money...