Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adams, a soft-voiced six-footer with spectacles and a brown beard, denies that he is the "mastermind" behind the new I.R.A. He claims that the British want to "personalize" their enemy and settled on him for the purpose. "No one man could have done everything they say I did," he says. Yet he is clearly a top strategist in the Republican movement. Speaking officially as vice president of the Provisional Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Provos, Adams met TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof in Ulster last week in the first interview he has granted to any U.S. publication...
...when she comes up flat, it is hard to look away. Midler does not make the mistake of begging for attention, like her cabaret colleague Liza Minnelli; she retains a sense of humor about herself. By mixing outrageous show-biz posturing with low-key self-effacement, she is a mastermind at getting the audience on her side...
Alex's most notable failures were at tempts to establish a permanent studio of his own and to mastermind British Lion, a major, state-subsidized effort to stabilize the British film industry after...
...join in the gaiety. Ranger Coach Fred Shero, the reclusive mastermind who in less than a year had transformed a team of patsies into prime contenders, spoke briefly to the press and then simply walked out of the Garden, got into his car and drove home. Right Wing Don Murdoch explained Shero's disappearance during a moment of triumph that is the stuff of coaches' dreams: "Fred is different from most coaches, and he's made us different...
...would be easy to conclude that Patti Smith is being produced and retouched by the invisible, massive forces of the record industry. And it is true that mastermind technician Todd Rundgren produced her newly-released album, Wave. But it still isn't Boston, and that is because of the angst...