Word: helen
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Hidden behind a two-way mirror, U.S. secret agent Harry Tasker is grilling a suspect. His voice electronically disguised, Harry pries and threatens until the suspect turns hysterical and throws a chair against the mirror. The interrogation victim is Harry's loving wife Helen. The spy has been having a little wicked...
...speaks French, Arabic and a little English. He even tangos. Then he is pursued by the usual inept Middle East terrorists -- the ones with a quillion rounds of ammunition and lousy aim. He escapes with the help of spy's-best-friend Tom Arnold and arrives home, where Helen awaits him in sweet ignorance; she thinks Harry is a workaholic salesman for a computer company. Helen always waits; she is Penelope, unaware that she's married to Ulysses...
London: Barry Hillenbrand, Helen Gibson, William Rademaekers Paris: Thomas A. Sancton, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Jay Branegan Bonn: James O. Jackson, Rhea Schoenthal Berlin: Nomi Morris Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, Sally B. Donnelly, Yuri Zarakhovich, Felix Rosenthal Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer, Ron Ben-Yishai, Jamil Hamad Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod Cape Town: Peter Hawthorne New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy, Anita Pratap, Meenakshi Ganguly Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz, Mia Turner Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America...
...learn when you teach required course that there is always a trade-off," says Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler. "I personally feel sorry for people who are going to die without reading a poem by Horace or play by Aeschylus, but that's up to them...
...year-old convicted of vandalism and sentenced to a caning in Singapore, that an otherwise sorry little episode has shaded into a certified International Incident, complete with intercessions by the U.S. head of state. An affair that sometimes sounds -- on editorial pages -- equivalent to the abduction of Helen of Troy has outraged American libertarians even as it has animated a general debate about morality East and West and the proper functioning of U.S. law and order. The Trojan War this is not: the wooden horse is in America's citadel...