Word: go-between
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...anxious for us to play a role, the issue was too important not to play a role." There was agreement with the British position that Haig should not be an official mediator, but act as a helpful go-between who will explore different proposals...
...Saakashvili went out of his way to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin that he could serve as a go-between to hammer out an acceptable balance of American and Russian interests in the Caucasus. This let Saakashvili restore Ajaria, one of the breakaway and Moscow-oriented provinces, to Georgia's central authority, as Putin gave it up as a test of Saakashvili's intentions. At that, however, Saakashvili's luck seems to have run out: Russia firmly controls Abkhazia and South Ossetia - the other two breakaway republics, with no intentions of giving them back, and keeps turning up the heat...
...Brits are past masters at viewing passion with precision. Atonement has echoes of 1971's The Go-Between (a youngster's confusion about a grownup love affair) and 2004's Closer (in which revenge is a stronger impulse than desire). All these films say we are creatures of our wills; it's what makes us human. Atonement says we can sink into sin and lift ourselves out. That's the message of this wise, beautifully acted parable of vengeance and contrition...
...demand is high. What's the profile of an antiquities thief? There are three types. The first is basically anyone - from a herdsman to a fisherman - who stumbles on something ancient and refuses to hand it over to the state. The second is more refined. He acts as a go-between, buying the looted items and marketing them to the third type, namely big-time collectors, antiquities dealers, auction houses - even museums - that know the true provenance of the items. How do you solve these cases in a country like Greece, where almost every household holds some ancient relic...
...with traits of a Marine friend, Jack Stang (whom he later proposed should star as Hammer, even directing a short film with Stang in the role, but it didn't take.) He also gave Hammer a contact in the police force, Captain Pat Chambers, to serve as go-between, confidant and stooge; and a girl-Friday, the voluptuous, resourceful, loyal Velda - based, Spillane says, on Wilma, "an old girlfriend of mine, a long time ago, before...