Word: likings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This has been a vintage year for spies, real and imagined. In that second realm of entertainment, terrorists stalked the bestseller list, and every month new operatives peered from the dust jackets of international thrillers. Most of the books, of course, were time killers, for those who like it dead. But a few managed to cross the DMZ into the demanding arena...
...getting drunk on booze smuggled in via a CIA pouch, mixing daiquiris in a document shredder and selling Amway household products over the secure telephone line. Chris was sometimes sober enough to be appalled by the messages he was handling: the CIA was spying by satellite on friendly nations like France and Israel and trying to topple the new leftist government of Australia...
...this the misfortune, mismanagement and bad advice that led to legendary stardom? No matter. The Farbers have a stake in making The Industry smell like a rose. The Kanins don't mind either. DeMillean in scope and cast, Moviola reads like the greatest benefit performance ever told. - R.Z. Sheppard
...strikes and threats, Strickland becomes active in Labor Party politics, on the side all his well-to-do friends detest. He thinks he is rekindling the socialist torch he carried when young, but his wife Clare scalds him: "You're addicted to your own self-importance and like a real junkie you need bigger and bigger doses to keep going." Strickland also becomes embroiled in an affair with an enormously rich young woman and realizes, belatedly, that she thinks he will break up his home for her. He argues to himself that her impression never came from...
...exempt organization with a staff of six. Their detailed reviews of new textbooks under consideration by Texas schools, and Norma's motherly testimony before the State Textbook Committee have great impact in Texas, where schools have tossed out a number of new dictionaries that included terms like "slut," "queer" and "bed, verb transitive." Their objections to a number of health and government texts aroused elected officials on the Texas Board of Education, who last month dropped five of ten books that the Gablers had opposed. What Texas does affects textbook publishers nationally, because the state selects all elementary...