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...opening statement, Weitzman declared that federal agents had ruthlessly taken advantage of De Lorean's financial woes to entrap him in an operation the lawyer likened to the movie The Sting. De Lorean, he claimed, had been "framed," then threatened by FBI Informant James Hoffman, a convicted cocaine dealer and admitted perjurer. "John De Lorean was sucked into this," Weitzman said over and over again. The videotapes, he said, were "produced, choreographed and directed to make De Lorean look guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: De Lorean vs. Almost Everybody | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...victim, the selects a stereotype of bachelorhood--a rich, handsome. Parisian lawyer named Edmond (Andre Dussolier). Her game of cat and mouse monopolizes the rest of the film and her actions reveal her desperation in finding a true place for herself in society. Of course, various plans to entrap the unsuspecting Edmond are amusing in their simple . But in the end, the indefatiguable pursuit of the values embedded in modern society...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: A Life of Illusion | 10/20/1982 | See Source »

...sight of Michael Caine kissing Co-Star Christopher Reeve, "Say it isn't so, Superman!" This spring will bring Partners, about a gay policeman (John Hurt) and a straight one (Ryan O'Neal) who set up housekeeping in the Los Angeles homosexual community in order to entrap a murderer who is preying on it. Like all the other pictures in what looks suspiciously like a trend, it reportedly shows homosexuality neutrally, as just another fact one is likely to encounter while stumbling through modern life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gays to the Fore, Cautiously | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...That the planners for Suslov's funeral, a host of apparatchnik pressmen, and perhaps an entire popuation, could stifle the outreach of history with such an air of unconcern says something about human nature, and our ability to adapt to the needs of whatever sort of politics happen to entrap...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Burying the Dead | 2/20/1982 | See Source »

...close study, Butow re-created a Roosevelt talking indiscreetly with his aides about Japanese military threats, the black arts of politics and the sex life of his 1940 Republican opponent, Wendell Willkie. Bu tow insists that Roosevelt had no "Machiavellian designs," and that the recorder "was never used to entrap anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R. on Tape | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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