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Officially, the CIA says it has no record that Doole ever worked there, but among old agency hands, he is a legend. Operating out of a small, nondescript office on Connecticut Avenue, he founded and ran a far-flung network of airlines that the agency used to carry out its covert operations all over the world. Owned by a holding company, the Pacific Corp., that was itself a CIA front, Doole's empire included Air America, Civil Air Transport, Southern Air Transport, Air Asia and dozens of small puddle-jumper lines. Together, at their peak in the mid '60s, these...
...making any kind of statement or even really using these ingredients to create unusual characters, the makers of this movie invoke over-used stereotypes and slapstick humor. The slum high-school is just a convenient if colorful backdrop for Goldie Hawn's dizzy smile and the players simply big, nondescript things to root...
...runabout, or rather the Platonic ghost of one, made of glass reinforced with wire mesh; a sailing dinghy made of sheet copper; and a trio of bright blue, toylike sailing boats, one of them toppled as by a puff in the bathtub. There are also wooden fences, sheds and nondescript little structures of a vaguely maritime sort. The boats and sheds crop up again around the walls in big, lush paintings of bay shores and creeks, giving a mirroring effect: Are these paintings of real scenes, or of boat-sculptures and mock houses in a landscape, or what...
...spots. Steinberg needs to improve his punting form to become an offensive threat. Even KICKING GAME: Placekicker Craig Saltzgaber has one of the strongest legs in the league; he is perfect on extra points, and has converted one of two field goal attempts. Punter Kevin Griffin is average. A nondescript area...
...intellectuals now. By some similar force of instinct and understanding--maybe Chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer would know about this--they see and play the game several moves ahead of the moment, comprehending not only where everything is but also where everything will be. Shown a photograph of a nondescript instant on the ice, Gretzky can replace the unpictured performers here and there about the periphery and usually recall what became of them the next second. Glancing at the basketball photo in the morning paper, Bird's automatic thought, essentially a reflex, is to note approximately what time the photographer...