Word: masterminding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true mastermind, Malkovich's character seems to be the cleverest person on the screen, which forces us to see Horrigan as someone definitely past his prime. Booth is a deep villain who sees meaning to what he's doing and attacks Eastwood's character psychologically. As a source of suspense, Malkovich's character is limitless, especially with the phone close-ups and chase scenes designed by director Wolfgang Peterson...
...decided to allow Chen to work toward his doctorate degree while in jail. Peking University has rejected Chen, but he awaits word from People's University. He plans to study the history of intellectuals in China or the history of Chinese civilization. Why are Chinese leaders allowing an alleged mastermind of student protests to get a higher education? To improve China's image...
...brief sweet moment, it seemed that the Middle East peace talks scheduled to reconvene this week after a four-month hiatus might be more than another round in an interminable game. Israel agreed to deal directly with a major participant previously excluded from the table -- Faisal Husseini, the mastermind of the Palestinian delegation. Israel had objected to Husseini because he comes from East Jerusalem, an area the country contends is its own. It agreed to include him in hopes of boosting his relatively moderate position. But days before the talks were to begin, the main Arab participants asked...
...like another suspect accused of obstructing justice, they have all asserted innocence). Authorities have yet to spell out any theory of who did what: Who actually made the bomb; who drove the van containing it into the trade center? Abohalima has been described in some press reports as the mastermind, but some authorities view him as a bombmaking "consultant." Debate rages too about the motive and whether the bombers were directed by foreign terrorists or were just a bunch of free-lance zealots. (See related story on page...
Barry Diller inspecting hubcaps: it's a sight strange enough to cause a pileup of rubberneckers on the Santa Monica Freeway. Last February he resigned from one of Hollywood's most powerful posts -- chairman of 20th Century Fox and mastermind of the Fox network -- because he wanted to run his own company rather than continue as a hired hand in Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Hollywood assumed he would return as the head of another studio or perhaps a network, and he did have some exploratory discussions about buying NBC. But when he announced his new venture in early December...