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...state police agent was wired with hidden microphones and sent into the Ebony Room, but the dealers were not foolish enough to sell to a stranger. Watson then went to the bar with a female undercover agent, introducing her as a friend who wanted to buy cocaine. Says Sandberg: "The absolute worst happened. One of the men recognized her as a narcotics cop." After she left, Watson's keen undercover instincts saved him: he had just met the woman, he claimed, laughing, and had no idea she was a narc...
...soldier now. His older brother Farouk will try to track him down. Farouk is more self-assured than Ahmed, a bit colder as well. At 31, he holds a high rank in Al-Fatah, the largest faction within the P.L.O. He says very little at first, sizing up the stranger. Their taxi rolls past a fat man who has been forced to drop his pants for a search at a checkpoint in the middle of the street. He stands there helpless before a group of boy soldiers and squeals in rage and humiliation...
Although Romance marks Oxenburg's acting debut, we have learned from numerous magazine and newspaper articles that she is no stranger to the ways of the upper classes. Related to both Charles and Prince Philip, she calls Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia "Mom" and is a cousin of Queen Sofia of Spain. The late Princess Marina of Greece, also known as the Dutchess of Kent, was a great aunt. Hair trimmed and parted to the side Diana-style, Catherine hauntingly resembles the real-life queen...
Hinckley's twisted poetry also became a matter of dispute. Asked Blyther: "Could a sane person have written it? Obviously something is wrong with him." Drake, who said she likes to write too, disagreed. "This man is a writer and writers are strange. He is not stranger than they are because he was infatuated with Jodie Foster. He shot four people." The argument turned on whether poetry should be considered factual or if, as Prosecutor Roger Adelman had insisted during the trial, fictional. "Poetry is not fiction," Lassiter argued vehemently. They all tended to agree. To make sure, they...
Usually, the impulse passes. The car gets packed and pointed back toward the old reality. The moment dissolves, like one of those instants when one falls irrevocably in love with the face of a stranger through the window as the bus pulls away...