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...Godfather I, when Vito's daughter is married, set the precedent for this emphasis and Coppola has created several new ones--Michael's son's first communion, the funeral of Vito's widow, Michael's appearance before a congressional committee, and, most bizarre of all, a long cloak, dagger and revolution sequence in pre-Castro Cuba...
...generated a seemingly endless language of creative inspiration. The oldest jade carvings are flat, rounded pi disks ranging in size from a foot to a few inches with circular perforations, and ritual reproductions of Neolithic stone tools such as axes, chisels and knives, and of Bronze Age weapons like dagger-axes and spearheads...
...London in a record-breaking 1 hr. 55 min. As head of Lockheed's top-secret "Skunk Works" design shop, named after the foul-smelling factory in Li'l Abner, he also played a crucial role in developing spy satellites, electronic jamming and other cloak-and-dagger technologies...
...Dagger Thrust. Each age must measure its knowledge of war, its concept of force against the Iliad, and that is one reason the poem has been translated and retranslated, from Alexander Pope's resounding version in 1720 to Richmond Lattimore's literal yet poetic rendering of 1951. In Pope, for instance, dactylic hexameters were given their royally cadenced English equivalent to which Homeric heroes stepped rather like late-Renaissance princes. Robert Fitzgerald, Harvard's Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and a poet (Spring Shade, 1971) in his own right, has cut back on the pomp without...
...Shrewd and capable, Colby has sought from the day he took office as director to channel more of the CIA's efforts into the gathering, evaluation and analysis of information and less into covert actions?the "operational" side of the intelligence business. Says he: "The CIA's cloak-and-dagger days have ended...