Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Espionage made grim, grey and as engrossing as it was in John le Carré's novel, with Richard Burton perfectly cast as the worn-out British Intelligence hack on a fateful mission behind the Berlin Wall...
Imagine the general amazement when, quoting the popular expression that "The fish rots from its head, not from its tail," the President set out to hack away graft in government from the top down. First hit was the judiciary. At Helou's prodding, the Supreme Judicial Council in December fired 13 prominent judges whose "irregularities" were well known. Last week the diplomatic service was called up on its own red carpet. Sacked "for not properly representing Lebanon" were the ambassadors to Russia, Iran, Cyprus, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Senegal and Argentina (the ambassadors to Britain and Egypt had quit...
...central implication of The Hunt is tediously obvious from the opening shot of luscious Ursula Andress ducking bullets: what if a Hunter falls in love with his official Victim? Every hack science-fiction film I've seen since the 50-Foot Woman has provided less predictable dilemmas...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Director Martin Ritt (Hud) has made John le Carré's novel into a masterly spy thriller, with Richard Burton giving his best movie performance as the worn-out British intelligence hack on a fateful mission...
...British intelligence hack Leamas, Burton looks puffy, paunchy, burnt out. His shoulders sag, he interrupts himself with breathy exhalations, and his eyes are dead because he is bored with killing but beyond caring. "It's like metal fatigue," says Control (Cyril Cusack), recalling Leamas from West Berlin to London for an extraordinary mission: to frame Mundt, the Communist intelligence chief whose assassins have been eradicating Britain's East German informants. Leamas must act as a decoy, shamming to convince the East Germans that he is embittered and ripe to defect. While the gears of intrigue mesh, Burton...