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...KNACK is a fantastically droll British bedroom farce played out in an all-but-bare room. If one can imagine three perplexed and, at times, almost pathetic Marx Brothers chasing a plump country girl, with the cry of "Rape!" punctuating the air like "Tallyho!", one gets a glimmer of Playwright Ann Jellicoe's comic instincts...
...movie re-creates events leading to the 1961 conviction of Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, born Konon Trofimovich Molody, who was recently swapped back to the Russians in exchange for Greville Wynne. Still in a British prison for their association with Lonsdale are pub-crawling Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton; his plump, middle-aged sweetheart Elizabeth Gee, who filched diagrams, manuals and Admiralty fleet orders; and a pair of personable American traitors, Peter and Helen Kroger, whose cozy home in a London suburb contained a radio that got its programming directly from Moscow...
Lurking among the chillier shadows of John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a plump, worried man named George Smiley. Smiley is the British intelligence agent who sets up the betrayal of the hero's mistress so that another part of the plot can thicken. Though nearly 150,000 copies of Spy Who Came in have been sold in the U.S. alone, very few readers will know George Smiley from any other stranger who hurries by in a dark street with his hat pulled low. But Smiley has quite a dossier...
Active Member. The Queen calls the Prince "Bernilo," and he calls her "Julie." He is as slim and debonair as she is shy and plump. At 52, he has long since overcome the handicap of being German by birth, is one of the busiest men in the kingdom, sits as an active member of the boards of Royal Fokker Aircraft, Royal Netherlands steelworks and KLM (in the interest of fairness, he serves only on the board of companies that have no Dutch competitors). Not only is he his nation's most effective representative abroad, but he also provides...
...Committeeman Jake Arvey, dozens of Democratic precinct workers - and little Cathy Baker. Daley and his boys were not about to let some kid beat them to the President. When Johnson stepped down from the plane, Daley's Democrats rumbled past Cathy, thundered eagerly up to offer Johnson their plump palms. The President shook hands with most of them, finally scooped up Cathy, collected a kiss for preventing the railroad strike. Then he went off to downtown Chicago, where Daley had arranged to deliver 6,000 paying guests to a $100-a-plate party dinner. After dinner there were fireworks...