Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...station in a pickup truck with bodyguards," she recalls. One carried a shotgun. "Walker told me he had to be protected, that he feared for his life at all times. It was more than a little strange." After Barbara Walker's tip, the FBI secured court permits to tap Walker's telephones. On May 19, after hearing him talk about a special trip to Charlotte, N.C., agents watched his Chevrolet Astro van head north toward Potomac, Md., instead. According to trailing agents, Walker drove evasively, checking to see if he was being followed. He did in fact shake his pursuers...
...STUFF. My father made everyone in our family take a musical instrument and go to lessons every day. I took piano lessons but I hated them. Finally, I convinced my father to let me take dance lessons at one of those schools where you get ballet, jazz, tap and baton twirling. Anyway, the dance school was really like a place for hyperactive young girls. I was pretty rambunctious...
Dale has the showier role. In recounting, directly to the audience, the downs and irrepressible ups of the couple's years together, he mimics a condescending Viennese specialist, a trendy clergyman, a miraculously cured boy catatonic turned tap dancer. Leaping like a mountain goat from one peak of artifice to another, Dale displays flashes of a fine mind wasted on self-pity and despair. Channing joins him in these sarcastic reveries, but most of the time she has the hard duty of being normal. Sheila is clever enough to keep up with Brian but is essentially undistorted. She feels...
...illusions in the style of the generic teen flick. Reiner uses the cross country trip scenario as a chance to wink, gently but snidely, at the void that is Middle American culture In smaller but still delightful doses. Reiner offers the same subtle satire that made This is Spinal Tap! the best comedy of last year...
...Government Department often gets a bad tap for being a distant place Part of out intention is to improve accessibility to everyone." Putnam said, The committee is tentatively set to meet for the first time Later in the month, but has not yet formalized its meeting schedule...