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...Bush Administration's final years, its reputation??touched bottom. Many Americans complained that they had the wrong President. For a time, Bush's approval ratings sank below Richard Nixon's and Jimmy Carter's worst...
Derided as the "captain of a wrecked ship," Smiley tries to find a coup so stunning it will restore the Circus' reputation???and funding. From the outset, he has one obsessive target: Karla, head of Soviet agent operations, whose spectral face stares down from its frame in Smiley's office. The relationship of the opposing spymasters, playing international chess for men's souls, is worth a book in itself. Karla is an evil genius who once instructed his mole to seduce Smiley's wife?to make the Briton doubt his motives for suspecting Haydon. Smiley's pure, patriotic zeal...
...People first began talking about Ernst Lubitsch when Pola Negri was getting popular. He directed her in the pictures that made her reputation???Gypsy Blood, Montmartre, One Arabian Night. With her he made Madame Du Barry, called Passion in the U. S., which was credited for reviving a vogue in historical costume pictures. Son of a Berlin storekeeper, Lubitsch learned about acting from a comedian named Victor Arnold and from Max Reinhardt, who hired him for a while. After the Negri pictures, he showed that he was even better at comedy than serious things. He colored The Marriage Circle with...
CHICAGO?The History of its Reputation???Henry Justin Smith & Lloyd Lewis ?Harcourt, Brace...
...Peacemaking paused while the Allied statesmen turned to watch an embarrassed artist of international reputation subside into his seat. A few rows back of him a flushed Emporia, Kans., editor?of similar reputation??? likewise dropped down into his seat, amid audible whispers of 'Good for you, Bill White...