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...result, taping phone conversations came to be regarded as terribly sleazy. At least a dozen states have laws against such secret self-taps, as U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick was reminded when he tried to resurrect the practice...
...scenes with her, Linus Gelber, as Cadmos, the father of Agave and the founder of Thebes, has his most convincing moments. Indeed, these final moments of anguish do much to resurrect the drama as a whole...
Barbie's flamboyant French lawyer took just one day to interview six witnesses, including a former French collaborator who implied that the former Lyons Gestapo chief was just following orders when he killed and deported hundreds of Jews and members of the Resistance. Attempts to resurrect French atrocities in Algeria were shrugged off as irrelevant by the court's presiding judge. Prosecutors will now begin their summations...
...latest legends to resurrect themselves from the nether region of memory are Wire, four British lads who, as the legend goes, re-invented music at the end of the 1970s. Their blend of the visceral and the experimental, grinding guitars and synthesized textures, spawned an outrageous number of disciples in the American and British underground. Bands as diverse as Sonic Youth, 100 Flowers, Sorry, and R.E.M. all pay homage at the Wire altar. Brilliant albums such as The Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154, the holy trinity of progressive rock, forever ensured Wire's place at the pinnacle of modern...
Wedtech, meanwhile, is attempting to resurrect itself. A new management team has in its pocket a $500,000 loan from Chemical Bank and $38 million in Government contracts, none of which are the subject of investigation. Gone are the Cadillacs and limousines used by Wedtech's former officers. A $305,000 Manhattan condominium purchased in 1985 for "entertainment" purposes is on the market. Eventually, Wedtech's officers hope to rehire many of its former workers...