Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insist that Nixon twice objected to telling Judge Byrne about the Hunt involvement in this burglary until he was persuaded by Kleindienst and Petersen that he must...
...certainly conceivable that this group committed acts, perhaps involving foreign governments, that would be highly embarrassing to the U.S. if disclosed. But judging from the activities that Hunt and Liddy are known to have engaged in, it seems more likely that disclosure would merely have been politically embarrassing to Nixon. Every member of this unit is now either in jail or under grand jury investigation, and their activities seem a proper subject for thorough exploration...
Dubbed the "plumbers" because of their ostensible job of plugging up new leaks from the White House, these free agents applied their monkey wrenches to the Bill of Rights. At various times, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy directed Cuban provocateurs to beat up Daniel Ellsberg, organized the burglary of Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office and engineered the break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters...
...aristocrat. At times, an American reader is hard put to take Hil ary Fletcher's miseries as solemnly as he does himself- even if one grants that a second-rate British public school is "worse than prison" and that hell knows no torment like an Englishman at the hunt ball whose jacket fails to fit. Alas, The Upstart stipulates that exactly this sort of class embarrassment can still drive a dated Angry Young Man to organize ten years of his life so that he may debauch the daughters of the neighboring lord of the manor in their silk-sheeted...
...London suburb, the police are engaged in an all-out man hunt for a sex pervert who molests children. Connery is a detective who brings a peculiar passion to the pursuit. When a prime suspect (Ian Bannen) is captured, Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit...