Word: spooked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know that I have nothing to do with CLUE (Copley Place). I don't play board games, let alone make movies about them, let alone movies with three different endings, depending on the theater. Martin Mull does play a crafty Colonel Mustard, though, and gimmickry aside, even an English Spook like yourself might enjoy it. It's not easy taking a movie inspired by a board game seriously, but then I suppose you might have in your younger days...
...Rocky Mountains, Jeff Madison tethers his horse in a stand of aspen trees and moves slowly in a crouch past a beaver lodge, through grass still wet with dew. Below in a meadow at the edge of the forest, some 50 elk are feeding. Quietly, so as not to spook the animals, Madison sets up his 60-power spotting scope on a tripod and begins to count the elk, classifying them...
...Cubans testified that he had indeed worked with Wilson in both the CIA and Naval Intelligence, albeit before Wilson had put out the murder contract. The reaction of a member of the predominantly black jury appeared to reflect public opinion at the time: "This seemed like some kind of spook deal when all dudes were lying on one another. They ought to go make some of them James Bond movies...
...first secretary at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1973 to 1977, was later tabbed as having been an intelligence agent during that period. Washington read Moscow's attempt to place him for a six-month stay in Los Angeles as a clumsy provocation. "He's a spook, a rather bad spook," said one State Department official. Explained another: "If they had wanted to slip in ringers at the Games, this was not a good way to begin it." Officials said that the U.S. would gladly grant a visa to a legitimate substitute for Yermishkin...
...calls it. Along the way, Burt becomes entangled with the producer's secretary-mistress, a Palestinian terrorist, and is kidnaped by Moroccan radicals who rashly expect his employers to pay $1 million in ransom. Burt, however, not only knows his "onions on Islam," he is a part-time spook and a full-time survivor who proves devilishly resourceful...