Word: pens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...double agent set out to deceive Bucharest with a bit of cloak, if not dagger. For the benefit of secret-police comrades who had been sent to watch him, Haiducu followed through on an elaborate plan to kill Goma. During a cocktail party he used a specially made fountain pen to squirt a toxic chemical into the writer's drink. But a French agent " accidentally" jostled Goma's arm, spilling the poison. Since Haiducu could not fail on his second mission, the attack on Tanase had to be even more convincing. This time French operatives played the part...
Preferring a desk in a cozy adjacent cubbyhole, Shultz has shunned the grand, formal Secretary's office on the seventh floor of the State Department. He works in his shirtsleeves, poring over the mountains of reports he has ordered and annotating them with his fountain pen. They include analyses re-examining basic assumptions about policy and fu ture American plans. Says a close aide, "He Likes to have the context in which a problem is presented and the long-range implications...
This standard-size carrier bristles with surveillance devices, many of which are disguised as everyday items that can make paranoid executives feel as invulnerable as a Fort Knox guard. A cigarette pack in the case lights up to warn that a tape recorder is present. An ordinary pen illuminates when a "bug" is located near by. A supersensitive sniffer detects hidden bombs...
...rush-hour gridlock, whenever the entire eight-actor ensemble crowds onto the stage. The performances, though a bit broad for so intimate a space, are clever: Mara Beckerman is just irksome enough as the naive heroine, Alan Brasington swishily grand as her abductor, and Merle Louise, Polly Pen and especially Emcee Michael McCormick polished and persuasive as show-must-go-on troupers. The music hall genre may be dead, but Charlotte Sweet is an amiable, spirited resurrection...
...modern economy is not just a dismal saga of inflation though. The S.M.A.P. can also remember when the first ball-point pens came on the market for $12.50. No longer, said the ads, could ink leak from your fountain pen and ruin your new shirt. The S.M.A.P. had in those days a rich friend who spent $52 on the Fritz Busch performance of The Marriage of Figaro (on 17 breakable records); that version, one of half a dozen, now costs $18. When the S.M.A.P. first went to Europe in 1946, the only way he could find to get there...