Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talent for installing electronic bugs during court-approved break-ins made Special Agent H. Edward Tickel the FBI'S top surreptitious entry expert. The 14-year veteran planted eavesdropping devices in the bureau's most famous cases, including the "Brilab" sting operation that led to the 1981 conspiracy conviction of Carlos Marcello, the reputed king of organized crime in New Orleans. But last week Tickel, 42, was fired by the FBI after being indicted by federal grand juries in Washington, D.C., and Alexandria, Va., for a variety of crimes that took place between 1977 and 1980. Tickel pleaded...
...this be so? Are you telling us that Newman, old Cool Hand Luke, old Hud, old Butch Cassidy, old smoothie Henry Gondoroff from The Sting, is really a salad-dressing manufacturer? Yes, but we'll get back to that. The title and credits are ready to roll, and our soggy opening scene is still unresolved. What's going on? The facelike apparition turns out to be a face indeed, that of Newman himself. He has just finished plunging his muzzle into ice water, a ritual of his that, it is said, accounts for much of his eerie youthfulness...
...reporter in a clothes hamper, but he got hit in the face with a pair of pajamas just at the wrong moment. Newman says he soaked his face in ice water and sometimes still does, and he actually did it on the screen in Harper and The Sting. The story goes that he puts a rubber tube into his mouth and stays submerged for two to three minutes (although one press account has inflated the figure to 20 minutes). It is the rubber tube that sounds a bit overdone...
...That understates the case. In his head, and in as much of his life as he can control, he insists on not being "Paul Newman." In his first scene in The Sting, Newman is discovered lying drunk and unshaven, with his nose mashed against the baseboard of a crummy bathroom. Not many of Hollywood's firm-jawed preeners would have allowed the shot, but he has taken pains to look as gruesome as possible. It is an obvious mockery of the "sex symbol" blather that makes him writhe. He refuses to play out the celebrity part. He will...
...Sting (1973): Oh, great...