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Much of the information leading to the arrests came from Kevin Bonner, an intrepid FBI agent who went undercover for more than two years, infiltrating the motorcycle gang and crisscrossing the country to do drug deals with different Hell's Angels chapters. Bonner and an unnamed informant who traveled with him also unearthed leads on alleged bribery, extortion, contract murders and the harboring of fugitives by gang members. FBI Director William Webster claimed that the operation "averted five potential murders...
Within this intrepid travelogue lies the soul of Monty Python. The setting is the third largest island in the world, a fetid, fiercely overgrown jungle seething with carnivorous fauna and suspicious tribes. The protagonists are two British greenhorns with minimal survival skills. Poet James Fenton, 35, likes to spend his spare time reading the poems of Swift in a canoe. Narrator Redmond O'Hanlon, 37, is a literary naturalist who admits before embarking on the 1983 expedition, "The nearest I had ever come to a tropical rain-forest, after all, was in the Bodleian Library." Actually, he edges...
...complicated public image of Bernhard Goetz, New York City's "subway vigilante," seems to be shifting. The initial perception of him as a mild-mannered Clark Kent who changed into an intrepid punk stopper was certified last January when a grand jury refused to indict the weedy, self- employed engineer for attempted murder. But lately Goetz's righteous aura has been smudged by new revelations, principally that he admitted firing a bullet into one of his four victims with the words "You don't look so bad. Here's another...
...plot of Fast Forward serves only as an adhesive for connecting numerous dance scenes, but it manages to be banal and predictable, though blessedly minimal. A group of eight intrepid high schools kids escapes from the confines of Sandusky, Ohio, where their talent as dancers is neither appreciated nor taken seriously. Dance being, of course, for bidden in Ohio, the kids is forced to rehearse in abandoned warehouses and to run away to New York without telling their parents. New York, that mecca of artistic opportunity, proves to be tougher than this bunch bargained for. Braving myriad evils, from muggers...
...criticism as well as danger does not scare the intrepid protestors. Katz claims his and other activists' phones are being tapped by the CIA and that agents were spying on activists' meetings. The CIA also has a file on each of the activists, Katz says...