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Once Dye had the cast thoroughly sore-footed and stinking, Stone began filming, without a break, and continued for nine straight weeks. "They looked mean," Stone says, "and they stayed that way." Roaming the sets, Dye ensured the authenticity of every detail, from Barnes' wicked dagger ("Worn upside-down for quicker killing," Dye explains) to the proper use of white plastic C-ration spoons. No one said "Over and out" on the field radio, and no one wore camouflage fatigues, which came into use after the period depicted by the film...
...rally that the country had been spared a catastrophe. "I suppose our prayers have again been answered," she said, "because this afternoon we have once again done something that was peaceful. All our ministers have resigned." Putting it more bluntly, Teodoro Benigno declared that with Enrile's ouster a "dagger" had been removed from the government's heart...
...Prince William, 4. During the 45-minute ceremony, he played on the cord of his hat like a fakir's apprentice, wrapping the string around his nose and chewing it like a licorice stick. Undaunted by baleful stares from his mother and grandmother, he pulled out his miniature ceremonial dagger and began poking holes in the dress of Diana's niece Laura Fellowes, 6. When his victim wagged a finger of rebuke, the second in line to the British throne trumped her with a silent, but definitive Bronx cheer...
...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...
...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...